PACE officially recognizes the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people
Member of the permanent delegation of the Verkhovna Rada to PACE Yevgenia Kravchuk (Servant of the People faction) reported, that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
The resolution “Commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor – Ukraine again faces the threat of genocide” was just unanimously adopted in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, receiving 80 votes in favor.
The document states that the former leadership of the USSR deliberately implemented policies that led to an artificial famine in Ukraine with the aim of completely suppressing any resistance of Ukrainians to the totalitarian communist regime, subjugating the people and destroying their aspirations for an independent Ukrainian state. Like the Russian armed forces today, the Stalinist regime in 1932-1933 carried out criminal acts on Ukrainian soil against the civilian population with the clear intention of partially or completely destroying the Ukrainian people as a separate national community.
The Assembly emphasizes that the targeted extermination of political and cultural leaders, and then millions of ordinary Ukrainians, was a deliberate act of genocide.
It is especially important that the resolution emphasizes the current genocidal actions by Russia. As in the 1930s, Russia today is again using food as a weapon, not only against Ukraine, but also to destabilize global food security. By blocking and threatening ships in the Black Sea, the Russian Federation turned trade into a weapon, disrupting grain supplies to Africa and other regions. Ukrainian farmers face a lack of resources, while Russian forces deliberately shell farmland, mine fields, and destroy agricultural infrastructure. For example, the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam caused US$387.71 million in damages, depriving nearly 600,000 hectares of agricultural land of irrigation.
With this in mind, the Assembly recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people and called on all national parliaments that had not yet done so to follow this example.
In addition, PACE called on governments to do everything possible to help Ukraine repel the ongoing genocidal attack and bring to justice those responsible for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in the context of Russian aggression.
