Yulia Svyrydenko: In these days we honour the memory of the millions of Ukrainians killed by the Holodomor

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko took part in events commemorating the victims of the Holodomors.

“In these days we honour the memory of the millions of Ukrainians killed by the Holodomor – a planned genocide carried out by the totalitarian soviet regime. Entire towns were wiped out. At the height of the Holodomor, 25,000 people in Ukraine died every day from this man-made famine,” said the Head of Government.

Today, russia continues the same bloody policies of that totalitarian communist regime – once again using hunger as a weapon: mining fields, destroying grain storage facilities, attacking Ukrainian grain vessels. It levels entire cities, fires missiles into homes, hospitals, and schools, destroying everything living around them. Genocide, torture, murder – this is russia’s true face.

“But we endure, and we will endure. We fight – for our future and for our past. We will defeat this evil, as memory is also a weapon, preventing us from forgetting the true nature of this enemy. I thank all the states that have recognised the Holodomor as genocide. The world must not repeat the mistakes of history – and must stop russia’s crimes of today. We must carry this memory through the generations. Let us light a candle in remembrance of the millions of Ukrainians who were killed,” emphasised Yulia Svyrydenko