B6: Ukraine Solidarity Motion

Metadata of the motion
Consultation:	Winter General Meeting 2026
Agenda item:	3. Motions of Policy and Organisation
Proposer:	Charlie Aldous (Green Party)
Status:	Published
Submitted:	01/19/2026, 20:58

Motion text

The Young Greens note that:

Since the beginning of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022,
around 7 million people have been made refugees by the Russian Federation,
with a further around four million being internally displaced. [1]

Russia’s war on Ukraine has resulted in widespread human rights abuses,
including: mass killing of civilians, deliberate ecological destruction,
and forceable population transfers in occupied regions. [2]

The relocation of children (a move not disputed by Russia) from the
occupied regions of Ukraine has led to the sanction of the ICC
(International Criminal Court) on Vladimir Putin, given it is indicative
of Genocide under the 1948 convention. [3]

Russia has been able to circumvent international sanctions on its oil
industry via UK-based companies providing shipping and selling of gas
internationally. [4]

Ukraine's workers' movement, climate and ecological movement and other
social movements have continued to wage struggles for democracy and social
justice within the country, against the Ukrainian government's neoliberal
policies - while supporting and participating in Ukraine's defence against
Russian imperialism. Recent months have, despite wartime conditions, even
seen major and successful youth-led protests against corruption and for
democratic rights. [5][6]

Various UK political parties, including Reform UK, the Conservative Party
and even now the Labour Party have worked to dismantle the UK’s systems of
refugee protection and access. This includes attempts at dismantling the
Wales Nation of Sanctuary Scheme. [7]

Precarious visa and asylum status creates barriers to children’s and young
adults’ access to primary, secondary and higher education. [8]

The Young Greens believe that:

It is fundamentally wrong to wage wars of territorial expansion.

The Ukrainian people, through their elected representatives, must have
final say on any peace deal; it is not the right of Britain, Russia, the
USA or other nations to dictate terms in the negotiation of a long-term
peace.

Russia’s actions[see above] are an extension of imperialist control,
denying the rights of self-determination to the Ukrainian people.

International Law and Human rights should be enforced both by providing
sanctuary to those fleeing War and prosecuting War Criminals.

The UK government should close loopholes which have allowed Russia to
continue supplying fossil fuels and goods seized from occupied territory
to international markets.

The UK can learn valuable lessons from Ukraine and its people, both for
the strengthening of UK democratic practice internally and for the UK’s
international diplomatic efforts via adapting lessons learned from the
conflict to aid conflict recovery elsewhere.

The UK and other nations have a duty to provide safe and legal routes of
refuge to all people fleeing from conflict. They must also provide support
to those who have secured asylum to integrate into their place of refuge.

The Young Greens resolve:

To call on GPC and Green Party Parliamentarians to work alongside
Ukrainian organisations and Trade Unions in the UK, and Green parties and
left-wing parties in Ukraine and other countries (including, where
possible, Russian anti-imperialist and progressive parties) to pressure
the UK government into providing further aid for Ukraine.

To call on the government protect routes of asylum into the UK and protect
schemes to help asylum seekers integrate into their local areas (E.G: The
Nation of Sanctuary Scheme, among others), and to work to provide visa
stability and certainty in status to all refugees so they can gain access
to long term study.

To call on the government to close sanction loopholes and impose stronger
sanctions on the Russian state, complicit corporate organisations and
individuals.

To call on the UK government to use frozen Russian assets to fund
humanitarian supply provision and a just transition to Net-zero for
Ukraine.

To call for the twinning between UK and Ukrainian municipalities to share
support, experience and expertise.

To work with Ukrainian social movements(Climate justice, Trade Union,
LGBTQ+ liberation movements, etc.) to build solidarity and to develop
campaigns to combat inequality and environmental devastation at home and
abroad.

To work with the Green Ukraine Solidarity network and with Ukraine
Solidarity Campaign, the left-wing, union-based UK campaign in support of
Ukraine and its social movements.

References:

[1]: https://www.unrefugees.org/emergencies/ukraine/

[2]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/eastern-europe-
and-central-asia/ukraine/report-ukraine/

[3]: https://apnews.com/article/ukrainian-children-russia-
7493cb22c9086c6293c1ac7986d85ef6

[4]:https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2023/number/4/article/toughening-
-financial-sanctions-on-russia.html

[5]: https://baselgovernance.org/sites/default/files/2025-
07/Ukraine%20AC%20progress%20report_July%202025_eng.pdf

[6]: https://kyivindependent.com/veto-the-law-wartime-protests-sweep-ukraine-
after-parliament-passes-bill-weakening-anti-corruption-institutions/

[7]: https://willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/outrageous-welsh-conservative-
hypocrisy

[8]:Summary of “Displaced Ukrainians in the UK panel” available from [here]

Reason

Building off the moral principles espoused by prior items in our record of Policy statements and the request of the Green Ukraine solidarity group I have put together this motion. It supports our long term position on the impermissabity of genocide and right of self determination of all people. It also strenghtens our commitment to Refugee schemes and internationalism, alongside creating mechanisms we may use in future cases to support confiscation of funds from sanctioned individuals or firms.

Supporters

Cyn Muthoni (North and West Oxfordshire Green Party)
Takunda Chinowona (Cardiff Vale and Valleys Green Party)
Kian Issacs (Cardiff Vale and Valleys Green Party)
Beck Chamberlain (Ceredigion Green Party)
Nathan Goldup-John (Neath Port talbot Green Party)

Amendments

none

Comments

01/27/2026

Manu Teague-Sharpe:

Thanks for writing this Charlie! I have a couple comments that may become amendments.

Could we clarify what 'aid' we want the UK government to give to Ukraine? Would this include military equipment? Aid for refugees? Aid for reconstruction? Clarification could include condemnation of transactional deals, such as the US-Ukraine Minerals Deal 2025.

'The Ukrainian people, through their elected representatives, must have final say on any peace deal' - since elections have been cancelled, this implies that we believe Zelenskyy should have final say on behalf of Ukrainians. Since this motion shows solidarity with movements within Ukraine criticising the government, this seems like a contradiction.

01/27/2026

Charlie Aldous:

Hi Manu , Thanks for engaging with this proactively. So Aid was left deliberately vague for a couple of reasons , firstly the changing need of some aid requests over time so I didn't want to tie the motion down to creating a prescriptive list of aid (However I would be happy to work on a footnote clarifying some of this in a descriptive list that can be expanded upon). Secondly this was left vague because while I want it to be inclusive of military aid I didn't want to then devote large amounts of additional motion space to drawing lines around what kinds of military aid I would and wouldn't consider acceptable to send. The motion as a whole I want to leave to the contingent discretion of Green Politicians. (however would be keen to work with you in future to draft a motion on the details of the supply of aid internationally and permissability or otherwise of certain types of aid provisions)

Regarding the second line I agree it does look somewhat contradictory, I am reaching out to the Ukraine Solidarity Group for there thoughts on ammending it. I can keep you informed of the progress on this before jointly drafting an ammendment if that would be permissible?

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