The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at a meeting adopted a resolution recognizing the Russian war in Ukraine as genocide against the Ukrainian people. Yaroslav Zheleznyak, People's Deputy of the Holos faction, announced this on Telegram following the meeting..

363 people's deputies voted for the resolution on the Statement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "

The authors of the document emphasized that the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that one of the goals of their military aggression is. "

“It is obvious that the Russians are denying Ukrainians the very right to self-determination, which is a fundamental principle of the international legal order,” the authors of the resolution noted..

In the resolution, the parliament appeals to the United Nations, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, governments and parliaments of foreign states to recognize the commission of the Russian Federation of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, as well as crimes against the territory of Ukraine.

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The word “genocide” in Russia’s war against Ukraine is fully justified, because the crimes of Russian troops in Ukraine are in full agreement with the statements of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who systematically denies the existence of Ukraine as an independent state, and Ukrainians as a separate people and sees it only as part of the Russian Empire. Soviet Union.

According to the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, the crime of genocide is an attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part.. At the same time, people and countries that carry out genocide “should be punished”.