For many years the IIP has been focusing on developments in and around Ukraine. IIP team cannot remain silent about the attack by Russia on a sovereign state that it claims to be a brotherly nation. Russia is committing a crime on humanity in Ukraine that can have no justification. The intervention violates international law and the universal principle of non-interference. The war has to end and violence has to stop. Only an immediate and enduring ceasefire can be the basis for a political and non-military solution. The IIP always supports diplomacy and dialogue.