The French Senate recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people

The French Senate - the upper house of parliament - recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people. This is reported on their website.

327 senators voted in favor of the decision, 16 opposed.

“Publicizing the atrocities and suffering that the Ukrainian people endured is part of the struggle against oblivion, for the establishment of responsibility and legal compensation, and against the repetition of these tragedies in the future,” the resolution says.

In its resolution, the French parliament recognized that the famine, deportations and methodical extermination of the local population of the 1930s in Ukraine were artificially caused and were aimed at destroying Ukrainian identity.

Earlier, the resolution was supported by the lower house of the French Parliament - the National Assembly.

In mid-December last year, a similar decision was made by the European Parliament.

“European Parliamentarians strongly condemn these actions, which killed millions of Ukrainians, and call on all countries and organizations that have not yet done so to follow this example and recognize them as genocide,” the European Parliament website says.

At the end of November, Germany also recognized the Holodomor as genocide. The Bundestag resolution says it constitutes a "crime against humanity". Similar decisions were made in 2022 by the parliaments of Iceland , Belgium , Romania , Moldova , the Czech Republic and Bulgaria .