The Mopresidente oa Lekhotla la Europe la Lekhotla la Litaolo tsa Lehae le tsa Libaka, Marc Cools, o entse tse latelang setatemente se:
"Lebitsong la Congress, ke amohela ka bolokolohi ho lokolloa ha makhanselara a masepala a Tomsk, Ksenia Fadeeva le Moscow Krasnoselsky, Setereke sa Ilya Yashin, mohanyetsi oa bohanyetsi Vladimir Kara-Murza le bahanyetsi ba bang ba lipolotiki Russia le Belarus ba neng ba koaletsoe chankaneng ka lebaka la ba hanyetsang ntoa ea Russia khahlanong le Ukraine, le ba ileng ba lokolloa phapanyetsanong ea morao tjena ea batšoaruoa.
"Ke pheta boipiletso bo entsoeng ke Congress ho Qeto ea eona ea 494 ka Mphalane 2023 bakeng sa tokollo e potlakileng le e se nang meeli ea baitseki bohle ba lipolotiki ba khahlanong le ntoa le batšoaruoa ba matsoalo a Russia le libakeng tse hapiloeng ka nakoana tsa Ukraine, ba kentsoeng teronkong ka lebaka la ho hlahisa maikutlo a bona.
"Re tsoela pele ho ema re le bonngoeng le bahlahlobisisi bohle ba ntoa ba lulang ba amohuoe tokoloho e seng molaong kapa ba talimane le mahloriso - joalo ka makhanselara a masepala Alexei Gorinov, Oleg Nepein, Anatoly Arseev le baemeli ba bang ba bangata ba khethiloeng ba lehae le ba libaka, basireletsi ba litokelo tsa botho, baqolotsi ba litaba, baitseki ba bacha le bahanyetsi ba lipolotiki. Kajeno, re hloka ho tsoela pele ho hatella balaoli ba Russia hore ba lokolloe hang-hang.
“Ho kenngoa chankaneng ha bo-ralipolotiki, baqolotsi ba litaba le baahi ba tloaelehileng ba Russia Federation le Belarus ka lebaka la ho bontša ka khotso khanyetso ea bona khahlanong le mebuso ea bohatelli e busang kapa ho nyatsa ntoa e mabifi ea Federation ea Russia. Ukraine ha e amohelehe. Feela joalokaha 'Muso oa Russia o tšoara batho ba linaha tsa Bophirimela e le mokhoa oa ho etsa litumellano tsa ho lokolla linokoane.”