The House of Representatives of Belgium recognized the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on his Twitter.

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Zelensky thanked for this decision, which is important for every Ukrainian and is a deeply symbolic step.

According to the decision of the Belgian lower house of parliament, the decision was supported by 117 members of the chamber out of 127. Ten more abstained.

“The recognition by Belgium of the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people is crucial for restoring historical justice, especially now, when Russia is waging a genocidal war against Ukraine,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba noted in turn and thanked the Belgian House of Representatives for honoring the millions of victims of the Holodomor and supporting.

The Belgian House of Representatives is the lower house of the Belgian Federal Parliament.. Since 1993, it has dominated the legislative process and oversight of government activities..

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Belgium became one of more than twenty countries that recognized the Holodomor as the genocide of Ukrainians. In particular, in December 2022, this decision was supported by the European Parliament..

In how Stalin and Putin came to the genocide of Ukrainians, there is something typologically similar, inalienable, inherent in both dictators and the forces behind them.. Vitaliy Ogiyenko talks about this in detail in the article “How Stalin and Putin came to the genocide of Ukrainians?