"The former USSR leadership intentionally implemented policies that led to famine in Ukraine, aiming to completely suppress any Ukrainian resistance to the totalitarian communist regime, subjugate the Ukrainian people, and extinguish their aspirations and efforts to establish an independent Ukrainian State. Just as the Russian Federation's armed forces are doing today, the Stalinist regime in 1932-1933 perpetrated criminal acts on Ukrainian territory against the civilian population, with the obvious intent of destroying, in whole or in part, the Ukrainian people as a distinct national community."