The Verkhovna Rada recognises the political regime in Russia as "ruscism" and condemns it

"Statement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine "On Defining the Political Regime Existing in the Russian Federation as Ruscism and Condemning Its Ideological Foundations and Social Practices as Totalitarian and Misanthropic", reads the resolution.

The statement is addressed to the United Nations, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, governments and parliaments of foreign countries with a call to support the condemnation of the ideology, policy and practice of ruscism.

The initiators of the resolution believe it will "allow to define the forms of aggression and encourage the world to condemn the Russian Federation's policy, which leads to war crimes and genocide of the Ukrainian people".