countries in united nations vowed this, as well. so, the world accepting that what happening in ukraine is genocide means that it will not be, you know, put under the cover. it s something that people will remember, and say that we ll prosecute till the end until every single dpilt pguilty pers brought to justice. given that, moving forward now, does this mean ukraine will reassess exporting and selling weapons to countries like myanmar? in september last year, justice for myanmar noted the spupply o weapons which included air surveillance radar, aircraft engines, light tanks, was in their report not only fortifying the military in its battle against the anti-coup resistance. it also helped abet its actions during the nld, national league of democracy legislation, when it carried out assaults on the
ukrainian parliament put it in writing and called on the international community to do the same. the plegislature adopted a resolution calling out moscow s offensive as attempt to wipe out ukrainian culture and identity. the lawmakers cited mass atrocities, killing, rape, as justification for the label of genocide. joining me now from kyiv, member of the ukrainian parliament. thank you so much for taking time to speak with us today, kira. we appreciate your time. what does this declaration actually mean? ha does it actually change? hello, thank you so much for having me. well, what happening in ukraine right now as genocide means that the international community and the international organization will definitely have to act. so for 80 years after the second world war, the world was saying
nobody s beneath it. but whether you re a private or a captain or a colonel or a general or a civilian superior, the basic principles apply to you. nobody gets the get out of free card, nobody gets a free pass. every individual must act with responsibility in the in their contact and there is this personal accountability. superior orders is not a defense. it is not enough, um, to attack a civilian object and attack women and children, for example, to say i was told to do so. this is an opportunity and a responsibility to mobilize the law, and set it into battle. not on behalf of ukraine or against russia, nor on behalf of russia against ukraine. but on behalf of humanity. ukrainian officials have claimed that russia s actions in ukraine constitute genocide ask earlier this week, u.s. president joe biden also called it genocide. white house, though, said he was not making any legal judgment. on thursday, though, the
never again. and yet, it happened. russians didn t come here to conquer our land. they didn t come here, like, to make us slaves or something. they came here, specifically, to destroy us, to kill us, to wipe us off the world of the surface. and this is genocide. a and our statement asks the other countries ask otand other parliaments of the world to accept and make the statement as well. so then, on the way the prosecution will occur, on the way that putin and his generals will be, at some point, put to trial. on the way that their international tribunal will take the people who were actually fighting in ukraine for responsibility. so, it has very important, both, public meaning but also it has a very important judicial meaning
that they are doing. so it is extremely important to say it is genocide so the country even have in mind supporting russia, like hungary, like serbia, other ones. they would know that this will make them pretty much untouchable themselves. it is important to put in people s mind that s what s happening in ukraine has specific meaning and it is a scar scary meaning because when you hear the word genocide, you have all the images from the second world war, from what happened in ghettos. and it also adds to the images that we have seen from bucha and borodianka. and while russia is saying, okay, it s our military operation. we are almost done, and then we will be back home. we are saying, no, the hurt that has been done to my nation, to my country, this is the meaning. this is the genocide. this is cannot be forgotten, forgiven. this is the crime against humanity. this is what united nation vowed to prosecute till the end and