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The Polish Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution declaring Russia a “terrorist regime” and calling on the international community to investigate alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
The text, supported by all senators, says that “Russian occupiers” are “bandits” who “terrorize Ukrainians by bombing civilian facilities: kindergartens, schools, theaters and residential complexes”, as well as “torture and kill prisoners of war” in the occupied territory.
The statement of the upper house of the Polish parliament is addressed to “all the countries of the free world” who “believed that they would never be in danger of genocide”, but which Russian President “Vladimir Putin and his terrorist entourage were once again exposed to the brutal practices of the Stalinist and Nazi regimes.”
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The document also mentions “abduction of Ukrainian children for their upbringing (as Russians)” and “deportation and resettlement of Ukrainian citizens to the “ends” of Russia.”
“The Senate of the Republic of Poland strongly condemns Russian aggression and calls on all countries that stand for peace, democracy and human rights to recognize the government of the Russian Federation as a terrorist regime,” the document says.
Warsaw adopted in September restrictions on the entry of Russian citizens into its territory “for reasons of national security” and “for the moral aspect of the war”, allowing the admission of “dissidents and humanitarians, family members, diplomats” as the only exceptions. and those traveling in transit from and to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.”
Several members of the Polish government and the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have recently spoken out in favor of building a border wall along the border with the Kaliningrad region.
Polish Deputy Interior Minister Bartosz Grodecki said on September 15 that “the border with Russia must be strengthened” as the country is an “unstable neighbor” that “commits acts of terrorism against its neighbours.”
Two weeks ago, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on 46 member states to consider Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism.”
The resolution was passed with one abstention minutes after an emotional speech by the President of Ukraine, in which Volodymyr Zelensky defended that Russia “wants to use only the language of terror.”
The Council of Europe was the first international organization to designate Russia as a terrorist state and also called for the creation of an international tribunal to try war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.
More recently, about a week ago, the Estonian parliament passed a proposal to declare Russia a terrorist state, arguing that “with the threat of a nuclear attack, the Russian regime has become the biggest threat to peace both in Europe and in Europe.” in the world”.
However, the first country to accuse Russia of terrorism was Latvia, which said on August 11 that the Kremlin regime is sponsoring terrorism, “using suffering and intimidation as tools to take over Ukraine.”
Poland wants Russia to return works of art stolen by the Red Army during World War II