Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Holodomor
In the context of the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, the Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, Igor Grosu, condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing genocide of the Ukrainian people.
In a Facebook post, Grosu said that "our attachment to universal human values obliges us today to stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people to end the policy of genocide against the Ukrainian people in the 21st century and to maintain peace and freedom on the European continent."
He also said that "no imperial power has any chance of success when there is unity."
"For the Russian Empire, regardless of what it calls itself today, the value of human life means nothing," Grosu said. "And what is happening today in Ukraine - in Kyiv, Bucha, Irpin, Melitopol, Kharkiv, Kherson, and hundreds of other towns and villages - is a confirmation of the criminal nature of this regime."
"But the time will come, and we know that this will happen after Ukraine's victory in the war, when these atrocities will be condemned and punished," he added.
Last year, the Moldovan Parliament adopted a political declaration condemning the Holodomor, the famine organised by the Soviet Union in Ukraine in the 1930s.
In the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, communists organised a famine in 1946-1947 that killed an estimated 300,000 people.
The Holodomor in Ukraine killed over three million people and was recognized as an act of genocide by 64 UN member states, OSCE member states, and UNESCO.
On the night of November 25, 90 years after the Holodomor, the Russian Federation launched its most massive airstrike on Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that what Moscow is doing is "conscious terror."
Translation by Iurie Tataru
