The resolution, which passed unanimously, comes a day after Lithuania's foreign minister publicly urged a regime change in Russia.
Lithuania's resolution says that Russia's armed forces and mercenaries have committed war crimes in Ukraine, citing the atrocities reported in places Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol, Borodyaka, Hostomel and other cities, according to public broadcaster"The Russian Federation, whose military forces deliberately and systematically target civilian targets, is a state that supports and perpetrates terrorism," the resolution reads.
It also recognizes"the full-scale armed aggression — war — against Ukraine by the armed forces of the Russian Federation and its political and military leadership [...] as genocide against the Ukrainian people." LRT says the resolution describes Russia's intent as destroying Ukraine and breaking its spirit by"killing entire families, including children, abducting and raping people, and mocking them and the bodies of the murdered."
Lawmakers are calling for Russia to be held accountable for alleged war crimes in Ukraine. They are advocating for the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate Russia's actions, and want it to have the power to issue international arrest warrants. Ukranian officials are praising Lithuania's resolution. Ruslan Stefanchuk, chairman of Ukraine's parliament,"I urge the whole world to pick up the baton so that the memory of the mass murders of Ukrainians has never been erased by the enemy!"
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