Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, has declared that the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is “temporarily occupied by Russia” and condemned the “genocide of the Chechen people,” the parliament’s website reads.
Olena Kondratyuk, the co-author of the bill, says Ukraine declares that the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria “was temporarily occupied by Russia as a result of an armed aggression that contradicted the UN Charter.”
The Ukrainian Parliament condemned the international crimes committed by Russia during the First (1994-1996) and Second (1999-2009) Chechen Wars, the policy of genocide against the Chechen people. The Rada also called on UN member states and international organisations to ensure an independent and impartial investigation into international crimes committed in the territory of the “temporarily occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” and to bring the perpetrators to justice. The act is not yet published on the parliament's website.
The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was a self-proclaimed state not recognised by any UN member state which de-facto ceased to exist in 2000. The modern-day Chechnya is controlled by Ramzan Kadyrov, a pro-Putin Chechen whose father Akhmad Kadyrov was the Chief Mufti of Ichkeria during and after the First Chechen War but switched sides at the outbreak of the Second Chechen War in 1999 and joined the Moscow government.
The Riigikogu, Estonia’s parliament, declared the Russian regime terrorist earlier today. The parliament’s statement which condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of territories was supported by 88 MPs in a unanimous vote.
