The Ukrainian Parliament demands that its international partners recognize Russia as a "terrorist state"

MADRID, 19 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Parliament of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, has demanded this Friday for the umpteenth time that its international partners recognize Russia as a "terrorist state" just as they did in May, four months after the invasion began.

Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk has said that "the goal of the political regime of the Russian Federation is the genocide of the Ukrainian people, physical destruction, mass murder of Ukrainians and the commission of international crimes against the civilian population."

Stefanchuk has asserted that now it is up to other countries to take that step and thus "isolate" Russia. "That's exactly the kind of future a country trying to impose its 'imperial dreams' on the world should have," he has said.

"Russia is a terrorist state", which intends to impose its "imperialist" desires through "missiles", "assassinations" and "now resorting to nuclear terrorism", Stefanchuk insisted on the Parliament's website.

On May 22, the Ukrainian Parliament approved a bill presented by President Volodimir Zelensky with which Russia acquired this status and prohibited the propaganda of the "Russian Nazi totalitarian regime", as well as any support or justification of the invasion of Ukraine. and the symbols that praised it.

For the moment, few countries have dared to take that step, although they have chosen to join the international sanctions that come mainly from the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Latvia is the only country for now that has heeded kyiv's claims and has listed Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, after a vote in Parliament from which it encouraged other foreign nations to join this symbolic declaration.