Seimas Speaker: Russia is bent on accomplishing today what it failed to carry through during Holodomor

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the speaker of the Seimas, opened Thursday’s Seimas sitting by summoning the politicians to pay tribute to the victims of the Holodomor, the man-made famine deliberately provoked in Ukraine 90 years ago, said the speaker’s press service.

She called on parliaments of other countries and international organisations to follow Lithuania’s suit in recognising the current military actions of the Russian Federation as genocide against the Ukrainian nation and to seek Russia’s accountability for military genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.