The European Parliament declares Russia a state “promoter of terrorism”

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The European Parliament he has declared this wednesday to Russia as a state promoter of terrorismin view of their “deliberate attacks and atrocities committed against the Ukrainian population”.

With 494 votes in favor, 58 against and 44 abstentions, the MEPs “recognize Russia as a State promoter of terrorism, which uses terrorist means”. In this context, they ask the Twenty-seven to take steps at the national level, and the European institutions to generate the legal framework to carry out the designation.

The resolution focuses on denouncing the more than 40,000 documented war crimes committed by the Russian Army; in particular, the killings of Ukrainian civilians in places like Irpin, Bucha or Izium.

“The destruction of civilian infrastructure and other serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law constitute acts of terror against the Ukrainian population and war crimes,” lamented the European Parliament, which has also demanded a new framework from the European Union legal, to classify these States and restrict the relations of the community bloc with said countries.

Since the EU legal framework does not provide for the designation of countries as sponsors of terrorism, a scheme that does exist in the United States or Canada, the resolution emphasizes that the EU develop a Mechanism to denounce countries that use terrorist meanswhich would facilitate “many significant restrictive measures and would have profound implications for the EU’s relations with those countries.”

The resolution has been received with good words from kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyhas welcomed the decision and has insisted that Russia must be isolated “at all levels” in the international arena and held accountable for its “terrorist policy”.

The website of the European Parliament suffers a cyberattack, hours later

Just a few hours after the European Parliament resolution, Your website has suffered a cyber attackas confirmed by the European institution itself: “The availability of the website has been impacted from outside, due to high levels of external traffic. This traffic is related to a DDOS attack”, the spokesperson for the European Union has reported on social networks. Eurocámara, Jaume Duch.

Shortly after, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has pointed out that it is a “sophisticated cyberattack”, for which a group close to the Kremlin has claimed responsibility: “This after we have proclaimed Russia as a State promoter of terrorism. My answer: Slava Ukraini”, has stressed.