Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko stressed that it was necessary to widely inform the public in the Western countries that the weapons were being used against civilians.
The senators adopted a Statement on the direct responsibility of the countries belonging to the collective West and supplying weapons to the Kiev regime for civilian casualties in the Russian Federation.
The rapporteur on this issue was Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
According to Kosachev, the Kiev regime delivers regular strikes that are totally unmotivated from the military point of view at civilian facilities in the Russian Federation.
“This is how terrorists attack targets. These strikes could not have been carried out without the weapons supplied to Ukraine by the Western countries that are pretending that they have nothing to do with this outrage. They allegedly specify that [the Ukrainians] must not attack Russian territory. But we see that this is not the case,” Konstantin Kosachev said.
The Statement says that the Federation Council strongly protests against the collective West’s continuing supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the Kiev regime, weapons that are used to kill civilians and destroy the civilian infrastructure in the Russian Federation.
“The Federation Council states that the continuing supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment makes the countries of the collective West direct accomplices in the crimes committed by the Kiev regime, accomplices that bear responsibility for the deaths of civilians, including women and children, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and other gross violations of international law,” the document reads.
The Federation Council urged the parliaments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Czech Republic, and other member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the European Union to realise the direct responsibility of their countries for the deaths of civilians as a result of attacks by Ukrainian armed units on civilian infrastructure facilities in the Russian Federation and take immediate action to stop the supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the criminal Kiev regime.
This statement will be sent to the legislatures of the above countries, as well as to the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of States Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko suggested that senators take measures to widely inform the public in these countries that their taxpayers’ money is being used to purchase weapons that are used against civilians and civilian infrastructure.