The Parliamentary Assembly of the North Atlantic recognized the crimes of Russia against Ukraine as genocide, head of the delegation of the Verkhovna Rada Yegor Chernev said from a meeting of the NATO PA in Luxembourg.

“The NATO Parliamentary Assembly recognized Russia’s crimes against Ukraine as genocide, and the terrorist regime in Russia as racism. Unanimously,” he wrote on Facebook..

According to him, in the declaration, the parliamentarians of the NATO countries took into account all the key wishes of the Ukrainian delegation.. In particular, it expresses support for the international tribunal and assistance to Ukraine to victory and after it, condemnation of the ideology of rashism and restoration of territorial integrity, as well as sanctions, reparations and the Marshall Plan and much more.

In addition, the NATO PA called on the governments of their countries to openly announce at the summit in Vilnius that Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance and agree on the next concrete steps for Ukraine's accession to NATO.

“We have been fighting for such direct and clear wording for a long time,” Chernev noted and thanked Mikhail Shcherba, a Polish politician, a deputy of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, for his help..

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Ukraine applied to join NATO under the accelerated procedure in September last year.. Now Kyiv is insisting that at the Alliance's July summit in Lithuania, the organization make a concrete public gesture to bring Ukraine closer to membership.. A number of Eastern European NATO members want Ukraine to receive a meaningful signal in Vilnius and build closer institutional ties between the Alliance and Kiev.

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