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, states that “the Russian invaders” are “bandits” who “terrorize Ukrainians by bombing civilian targets: kindergartens, schools, theaters and housing projects”, and who “torture and murder prisoners of war” in occupied territories.
The statement of the Upper House of the Polish parliament is addressed to “all countries in the free world” that “believed that they would never be threatened by genocide”, but to whom the Russian president presented “Vladimir Putin and his terrorist entourage” again the cruel practices of Stalinists and Nazi regimes”.
The document also mentions the “abduction of Ukrainian children to raise them (as Russian)” and the “deportation and displacement of Ukrainian citizens to the ‘ends’ of Russia”.
“The Senate of the Republic of Poland strongly condemns Russian aggression and calls on all countries in favor of peace, democracy and human rights to recognize the government of the Russian Federation as a terrorist regime”says the doc.
In September, Warsaw adopted barriers to entry to its territory by Russian citizens “for reasons of national security” and “for the morality of the war”, recognizing as the only exceptions the reception of “dissidents and humanitarian affairs, relatives, diplomats “and travelers in transit to and from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad”.
Several members of the Polish government and the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party recently spoke 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” because that country is “an unstable neighbour” that “perpetrates terrorist acts against its neighbors”.
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 only one abstention, minutes after an emotional speech by the Ukrainian president, in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy defended that Russia “wants to use only the language of terror”.
The Council of Europe was the first international organization to define Russia as a terrorist state, and also called for the establishment of an international tribunal to try Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine.
More recently, about a week ago, the Estonian Parliament passed a motion declaring Russia a terrorist state, claiming that, “With the threat of nuclear attack, the Russian regime has become the greatest threat to peace, both in Europe and in the world.”
However, the first country to accuse Russia of terrorism was Latvia, which claimed on August 11 that the Kremlin regime supported terrorism “by using suffering and intimidation as tools to take over Ukraine”.
Source: DN
