'National penalties - genocide' in document 'Ukraine - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter XX. CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST PEACE, SECURITY OF MANKIND AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ORDER

Article 442. Genocide

1. Genocide, that is a willfully committed act for the purpose of total or partial destruction of any national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by extermination of members of any such group or inflicting grave bodily injuries on them, creation of life conditions aimed at total or partial physical destruction of the group, decrease or prevention of childbearing in the group, or forceful transferring of children from one group to another, -
shall be punishable by imprisonment for a term of ten to fifteen years, or life imprisonment.

2. Public calls to genocide, and also making any materials with calls to genocide for the purpose of distribution, or distribution of such materials, -
shall be punishable