On 14 April 2022, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the Declaration recognizing the Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine as genocide.
The Declaration and its explanatory note provide legal arguments that the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and its political and military leadership committed in Ukraine amount to and should be recognized as a genocide of the Ukrainian nation within the meaning of Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention) and Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (the Rome Statute).
The Russian Federation systematically commits in Ukraine underlying acts of the crime of genocide provided for in the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute, including killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group and the forcible transfer of children to another group.
These acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Ukrainian nation, which falls under the definition of a protected group on the basis of nationality. A draft of the Declaration and the explanatory note were prepared by experts of the Ukrainian volunteer initiative «Law in a Wartimer».
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