"The Assembly condemns the countless crimes and violations of international law committed by Russia, notably its systematic policies of forcibly transferring and deporting civilians, including children, from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory, as well as its co-ordinated operations to empty this territory of its Ukrainian population. These crimes and violations have been denounced in a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine to the United Nations General Assembly, which explicitly refers to them as “crimes against humanity”. The Assembly further notes that these measures are implemented with the ultimate aim of altering the demographic composition of the occupied territories in order to justify illegitimately, before the international community, the Russian Federation’s claims over them. The Assembly also condemns the political indoctrination and militarisation of Ukrainian children and youth under Russian control, including in camps; the deliberate destruction of Ukrainian identity and cultural assimilation; and the inhumane treatment and widespread torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian detainees. In this context, the Assembly stresses the European Court of Human Rights’ conclusion in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia that the changes made to the education system were primarily aimed at enforcing the Russification of the population in the occupied territories and at separating these territories from Ukraine."
The amendments are intended to emphasise the ultimate aim of the Russian Federation in implementing its own rules in the occupied territories to facilitate their de facto annexation.