The resolution, which will soon be discussed in the National Assembly of France, calls for the inclusion of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, which is very active on the Ukrainian front, in the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union, reports AFP.

The non-binding text, which MEPs will consider on May 9, mentions the group’s “numerous abuses against the civilian population” in Ukraine, some of which could be classified as “war crimes.”

The resolution was introduced by Benjamin Haddad of the Renastrea presidential party, but is expected to be signed by other majority groups and right-wing and left-wing opposition MEPs.

“It’s about sending a political and symbolic message, a signal to condemn Wagner and his activities against civilians for political purposes, like terrorism,” Haddad told AFP.

In mid-March, the Lithuanian parliament already adopted a resolution that “Wagner” is a terrorist organization, for which Kyiv thanked.

French parliamentarians have already demonstrated their support for Ukraine by passing a resolution last week recognizing the Holodomor, the Soviet-led famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s, as genocide.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, thanked them for the gesture, which fulfilled the great expectations in Kyiv regarding the painful memory of the murderous famine revived by the Russian invasion of the country.

Russia, for its part, responded by condemning the “anti-Russian fervor” of the French National Assembly, “all the more disgusting because France itself has not yet closed the page of its crimes of the colonial period.”