Ukraine's Defence Minister has called on the Australian Parliament to pass a motion recognising Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Oleksii Reznikov has described Russia as a "war crimes country" after evidence emerged of torture chambers and mass burial sites in liberated areas of eastern Ukraine. Steve Cannane spoke to Ukraine’s Defence Minister for the ABC’s foreign correspondent program just after Ukraine had recaptured around 10-thousand square kilometres of territory in the first month of the Kharkiv counter offensive.