Ukraine Solidarity supporters in the Green Party of England and Wales, organised in the Green Ukraine Solidarity network, have put together the following motion to its upcoming Spring conference (28 March 2026, online). It is proposed by British-Ukrainian climate activist and GPEW member Viktoriya Ball.

Green Party members can formally add their support to the motion, and/or comment, on the members’ website for the conference here.

If you’d like to help promote the motion or get involved in campaigning more generally, email green.ukraine.solidarity@gmail.com

A75 Strengthening solidarity with Ukraine

Synopsis: Responding to Russian aggressions against Ukraine and recent pressure from the Trump regime on Ukraine to capitulate, this motion calls for political and practical solidarity with Ukraine and commits party bodies to enact this.

Insert the following as a policy statement into the Record of Policy Statements:

In the face of rising right-wing authoritarianism globally, we support Ukraine’s just struggle against Russian imperialism, for self-determination and independence. We support workers’, climate and ecological, social justice and liberation struggles in Ukraine. We support anti-imperialist voices within the Russian Federation, particularly those representing indigenous peoples, who see Ukraine’s victory as essential for a decolonised and democratic Russia.

Conference notes a series of concerning events in the latter half of 2025. This includes the Trump regime literally rolling out the red carpet for indicted war criminal Putin, a leaked phone call revealing Trump appointee Witkoff alerting Putin’s foreign policy adviser about an imminent meeting between Zelensky and Trump and even telling the adviser what Putin should say to Trump before this meeting, and finally the Trump regime releasing a National Security plan that can be described as ethno-nationalist and hostile to Europe. Concurrently, the UN General Assembly voted in favour of urging Russia to immediately and unconditionally return all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred and called on Moscow to cease the deportation, adoption, and indoctrination of Ukrainian children. These developments demand we affirm our support for Ukraine.

Conference also notes:

1. The party’s support for Ukraine’s rights; for anchoring Ukraine’s voice at the centre of any negotiations; tightening sanctions on Russia including closing fossil-fuel loopholes; for military and humanitarian aid; and ensuring protection for Ukrainian refugees.

2. That Russia’s illegal invasion and occupation involve widespread human rights abuses – including killings, torture, mass kidnapping of children, deliberate ecological destruction, and forcible population transfers and displacement.

3. That Russia’s war of aggression has resulted in many tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties (killed and wounded), four million internally displaced, five million refugees and possibly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian military casualties (as well as Russia sending to death or injury over a million Russian Federation soldiers). In summer 2025 Russia escalated its assault, with most days seeing hundreds of drone and missile strikes, frequently targeted at civilians and civilian infrastructure.

4. That Russia is seeking to extort Ukraine, demanding cession of its internationally recognised territory (in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions) and control over strategic natural resources and industrial assets. These imperialist demands, if acceded to, would shred Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and its people’s right to self-determination.

5. That Ukraine’s progressive social movements and trade unions support the country’s war of self-defence, while pushing back against the Ukrainian government’s neoliberal policies.

6. That our party is the only parliamentary party in England and Wales consistent in supporting the liberation of all peoples from military aggression and colonial exploitation from Palestine to Ukraine and beyond.

To strengthen, embed and develop this approach, Conference calls for:

a. The centering of Ukrainians’ voices in negotiations, peace and reconstruction initiatives, with the objectives that there should be a sustainable, just peace, and that Ukraine’s territory and resources should serve the interests of its people, under democratic control, not those of foreign or domestic oligarchs and corporations.

b. The UK government to close fossil-fuel sanction loopholes.

c. Stronger sanctions on the Russian state and complicit corporate organisations and individuals, and action on the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

d. Increased aid to Ukraine to boost frontline confidence, strengthen military capabilities, and assert sovereignty by pushing back the Russian occupation.

e. Cancellation of Ukraine’s international debt, to free resources for humanitarian, defence and social needs.

f. UK promotion of strong international initiatives to ensure justice and accountability for Russia’s war crimes, including freedom and support for abducted children.

g. Support for Ukrainians and other refugees from war in the UK, including longer-term visa extensions and a clear pathway to permanent residence for Ukrainian and other refugees.

h. Solidarity and mutual support between UK and Ukrainian social movements.

i. Twinning between UK and Ukraine municipalities to share support, experience and expertise.

Conference instructs the following named Green Party bodies to take the following actions:

i. GPEX and GPRC working with other bodies and representatives as appropriate, to work alongside Ukrainian organisations in the UK, Green Parties internationally, trade unions and other civil society partners (as well as where appropriate anti-imperialists within the Russian Federation) to galvanise pressure on the UK and other governments to aid Ukraine.

ii. The International Committee, working with the Green Party Trade Union Group, to organise a delegation to Ukraine in the next six months after adoption of this motion to visit and build solidarity with civil society and trade unions in Ukraine.

iii. Campaigns Committee to work with UK and Ukrainian trade unions to campaign on defence of workers’ rights in Ukraine and the rights of Ukrainians working here.

iv. Campaigns Committee, spokespeople and elected representatives to campaign proactively in support of Ukrainian refugees as part of our wider refugee rights campaigning.

v. Campaigns Committee, spokespeople and elected representatives to campaign in support of the struggle for the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

Conference further instructs the International Committee and GPEX to review progress against these objectives and to report to Autumn Conference 2026, including to ensure clear, consistent election campaigning, manifestos and media output.

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