The Ukrainian parliament has approved a statement "On defining the current political regime in the Russian Federation as racist and condemning its ideological foundations and social practices as totalitarian and misanthropic".
Resolution 9101 was acked by 281 MPs, an LB.ua correspondent reports.
"The resolution aims to condemn racism as an ideology and practices that underlie the state policy of the Russian Federation and calls on 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 countries to support the condemnation of the ideology, policy and practice of racism," the explanatory note reads.
The resolution condemns the racist regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin as criminal and calls on the international community to take real measures to bring to justice the military and political leadership of the aggressor country and to join forces to overcome the threats posed to peace and security by such a regime.
"The adoption of this resolution will contribute to the international community's recognition of the form of Russian state policy as a set of dangerous and destructive ideas aimed at undermining the system of the modern international order and its principles - first of all, the recognition of the equality of all states and their sovereignty, as well as human rights. The resolution intends to draw the attention of international organisations, parliaments and governments to the commission of crimes by the Russian Federation and the reasons that prompted it," the MPs said.
On 1 April 2022, the Ukrainian parliament banned occupation symbols and recognised Russia as a terrorist state.