“Today, every member of the House of Commons supported my proposal to recognize that the Russian Federation is committing genocide against the Ukrainian people,” wrote Heather McPherson of the left-wing New Democratic Party, which introduced the proposal. The proposal states that the crimes are being committed “by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, led by President Vladimir Putin and others within the Russian parliament.” “Mass atrocities” include “systematic cases of deliberate killing of Ukrainian civilians and desecration of corpses”, torture, rape and “violent transfer of Ukrainian children to Russian territory”. With the approval of the proposal, the House of Commons acknowledged “that the Russian Federation is committing acts of genocide against the Ukrainian people,” according to the document. The move comes about 10 days after the Ukrainian parliament passed a similar resolution.
