Russia will pay for the Soviet-era famine, which killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932-1933, and for its actions in the current war in Ukraine, Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Saturday, Reuters reports.
“The Russians will pay for all the victims of the Holodomor and answer for today’s crimes,” Andriy Yermak wrote on his Telegram channel.
The annual Holodomor Memorial Day in Ukraine is being celebrated this year on Saturday.
In November 1932, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sent police to confiscate all grain and livestock from collectivized Ukrainian farms, including the seeds needed to plant the next crop.
In the months that followed, millions of Ukrainian peasants starved to death in what historian Timothy Snyder of Yale University calls “apparently deliberate mass murder.”
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