STATEMENT

of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

on the 90th Anniversary of the Holodomor

of 1932-1933 in Ukraine

Commemorating the memory of compatriots who became victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine, perpetrated by the criminal communist totalitarian regime in 1932-1933,

stressing that the deliberate and purposeful killing of millions of Ukrainians by starvation was another tool of the genocide of the Ukrainian people by russian imperialism which still has not changed its goal – the destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people,

noting that the removal of Ukrainian grain by the russian federation from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, ecocide committed by the aggressor state as a result of the blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP, shelling of critical infrastructure facilities and warehouses with food and humanitarian aid, elimination of the Ukrainian political and cultural elites in the territories occupied by the russian federation, assimilation of the population, deportation and forced relocation of Ukrainian children outside of Ukraine, destruction, theft and removal of cultural heritage objects, attempts to destroy Ukrainian national memory, Ukrainian identity and impose Russian identity instead indicate that the methods used by the russian federation against Ukraine and the Ukrainian people have not changed,

stressing with gratitude that, unlike in 1932-1933, Ukraine is fighting russian imperialism side by side with countries and peoples of the free world that provided and continue to provide us with all the necessary assistance,

and, on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine:

honours all nationals who survived this terrible tragedy, when an artificially created famine was used as a weapon of mass destruction against the Ukrainian people for its ultimate subjugation, for the brutal suppression of its aspirations to build an independent state, for the destruction of the Ukrainian nation, its identity, history and culture;

condemns once again the criminal actions of the totalitarian regime of the USSR aimed at staging the Holodomor in Ukraine, which resulted in the significant destruction of the social foundations of the Ukrainian people, its age-old traditions, culture, gene pool and ethnic identity;

expresses deep gratitude to the foreign states and international organizations that recognized the Holodomor in Ukraine as an act of genocide, namely Australia, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Republic of Ecuador, the Republic of Estonia, Georgia, Ireland, Iceland, Canada, the Republic of Colombia, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the United Mexican States, the Republic of Moldova, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Slovenia, the United States of America, Hungary, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, as well as the Baltic Assembly, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe;

recognizes the large-scale, unprovoked russian armed aggression against Ukraine as a continuation of the russian genocidal imperial policy aimed at punishing Ukrainians for the desire to build a modern, successful democratic state, for the civilizational choice to be part of the United Europe;

expresses deep gratitude to international organizations, governments, statespersons, representatives of the public sector and people of all countries of the world that supported the Ukrainian people in this difficult time and stood in the way of the aggressor's attempts to repeat the genocide that took place 90 years ago;

calls once again on international organizations and parliaments of the states of the world to restore historical justice and recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as a crime of genocide of the Ukrainian people and emphasizes that this will be an important signal to those political regimes that want to resort to new acts of genocide, as well as a significant contribution to the cause of ensuring a peaceful and secure future for the generations to come.