MPs submitted to Parliament a draft resolution that will recognize russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide.
Relevant information has been published on the web-site of Ukrainian Parliament.
Draft Resolution “On Genocide of Ukrainian Nation by the Russian Federation” was registered with the Parliament under No. 7250.
As at the morning of 6 April, the document is being reviewed by the Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Regions and Autonomous Republic of Crimea, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations.
The document proposes to recognize that criminal actions of the russian federation ongoing in the territory of Ukraine since 24 February 2022 are a genocide of Ukrainian nation.
As provided by the draft, relevant recognition by Parliament is required given that the russian federation has been committing willful actions aiming to destroy the Ukrainian nation. Such actions include mass torture, killings of civilian people, destruction of residential buildings and essential cinvilian infrastructure etc.
The draft further mentions that russia is a successor to the USSR responsible for the genocide [of Ukrainian people] through Holodomor (the Great Famine) of 1932-1933 and deportation of Crimean Tatar people in 1944. The resolution calls russia’s current political regime nazist by its substance.
In addition, the resolution refers to the appeal from Mariupol city council dated 1 April 2022, as well as the numerous evidence of war crimes committed by the russian federation in Bucha, Volnovakha, Irpin, Mariupol, Okhtyrka, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and many other places in the territory of Ukraine.
It is intended that Ukrainian law enforcement authorities will be instructed to comprehensively investigate the crime of genocide and ensure that those responsible for it are held liable using the mechanisms of national and international criminal justice.
It has been reported that the number of civilian victims in Irpin and Bucha has already exceeded the number of those killed in Croatian cities of Gospić and Vukovar being examples of internationally recognized war crimes. The Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security believes that the genocide in Ukraine may be the largest in Europe since the times of the Second World War.