Ukraine equates war with Ukrainian genocide, says Putin uses the same techniques as Stalin

The Congress inaugurates an exhibition on the 90th anniversary of the 'Holodomor', which Unidas Podemos has not attended

MADRID, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Minister Counselor of the Ukrainian Embassy in Spain, Dimitro Matiuschenko, on Tuesday equated the Russian invasion with the Holodomor, the great famine that killed millions of Ukrainians at the beginning of the 20th century. Thus, he has warned that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, uses the same "barbaric tools" as the dictator Iósif Stalin in 1932, the year in which the genocide began.

Matiuschenko has attended the Congress to the inauguration of a photographic exhibition that the embassy has promoted on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of Holodomor. In his speech, he recalled that the death toll from the famine caused by Stalin between 1932 and 1933 oscillates between four and ten million, which rises to 14 if indirect losses are taken into account.

The diplomat, who has thanked the Spanish parliamentarians for the exhibition to "honor the memory of the victims of the Soviet regime", has remarked that it has been inaugurated on the eve of the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, something "symbolic because times are They change but the Kremlin's barbaric tools remain the same."

In this line, he has affirmed that Russia carries out the "same practice of genocide of Ukrainians" and has given some data, such as that thousands of children have been forcibly deported to Russia or that the "aggressor State" tries to blow up the "identity Ukrainian" with the destruction of 320 museums.

Referring to hunger, the Ukrainian diplomat has homologated the current situation in Ukraine and that of the Holodomor thanks to the "expropriation" of crops and the "direct threat" from Moscow "to global food security" through the blockade of maritime transit in the Black Sea, "putting millions of people in vulnerable countries in Asia and Africa at risk."

On the other hand, Matiuschenko has asked the Congress to adopt a resolution qualifying the Holodomor as genocide, as parliaments of other countries have done. "Now is the right time, I would honor the memory of the innocent victims and help restore international justice," she said.

Lastly, he pointed out that it is "very important" that Russia's "crimes" "do not go unpunished" and "do not recur". "The international order must prevail", he has finished her.

The president of the Congress, Meritxell Batet, has stressed the importance of inaugurating the exhibition in the Lower House on the eve of the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which she has insisted on describing as "illegal and unjustified" and an "undisguised and flagrant violation of the rights of the Rule of Law".

Like the Ukrainian diplomat, Batet has also referred to the blockade of Ukrainian exports, which has put thousands of people "at risk of famine." Lastly, he highlighted the support that Spain offers Kiev in the context of the war, with financial and military aid, imposing sanctions on Russia and hosting refugees.

Representatives of the PSOE, PP, Vox, Ciudadanos, PNV and Compromís have attended the inauguration of the exhibition, but there has been no representation from Unidas Podemos.