00:00 At the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, President Zelensky expressed his
00:04 gratitude for the recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide.
00:08 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
00:14 Europe, PIS, for the recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide.
00:19 The restoration of historical justice and the recognition of the Holodomor victims send
00:25 a signal that all former and current crimes in Moscow are inevitably suspected,
00:31 Zelensky wrote on Thursday on Platform X, formerly Twitter.
00:36 Holodomor is called the famine disaster 1932-33 in Ukraine under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin,
00:44 who fell victim to millions of people.
00:46 The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba also thanked for the decision.
00:52 He published the voting result.
00:56 Accordingly, 73 MPs voted in favor of the conviction of the Holodomor.
01:03 In total, the PIS has 306 MPs.
01:06 The PIS unites a total of 46 countries in Europe and beyond, including the geographically
01:14 non-European countries Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
01:20 However, Russia was expelled from the Parliamentary Assembly shortly after the beginning of its
01:26 attack war against Ukraine in 2022.