The Lithuanian parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the Russian army’s crimes in Bucha, Irpin and other places in Ukraine, describing them as genocide.
“The International Criminal Court has already opened an investigation into the war crimes committed in Ukraine and we demand that everyone, not only Putin and Lukashenko, the Russian military commanders who ordered the killing or failed to stop the slaughter of civilians, but also the ordinary soldiers, be held accountable for the bloodshed and destruction of innocent lives in Ukraine,” Laima Andrikienė, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Russia's actions are incompatible with its membership of the United Nations and the United Nations Human Rights Council, and we call for Russia’s expulsion from these and other international organisations,” she added.
In its statement, the committee called on the international community to unanimously condemn Russia’s aggression and war crimes, describing them as genocide against the Ukrainian people.
According to the committee, sanctions imposed on Moscow are insufficient and NATO and its allies must introduce “comprehensive sanctions that would significantly weaken the Kremlin regime and stop Russian aggression”.
The committee called on EU member states to immediately halt imports of Russian oil and gas, to impose a ban on Russian ships entering all EU ports, and to suspend land transport to and from Russia in all EU member states.
Lithuanian MPs also called on international organisations and democratic parliaments to increase their countries’ military, financial, humanitarian, and diplomatic support to Ukraine.
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