Russia labels Ukrainian government a “terrorist cell” with neo-Nazi ideology

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed on Channel One’s program that the Ukrainian government has become an international terrorist cell with a “neo-Nazi firmware.”

According to Zakharova, Ukrainian armed forces reportedly return to sites of attacks on civilians to increase casualties, targeting social service workers and medical personnel in particular, Caliber.Az reports.

“The Kyiv regime, carrying out attacks against the civilian population, immediately returns to the crime scene to kill civilians who represent social services and rescue services. And, of course, doctors provoke in them a special ferocity, a particularly beastly hatred,” she said.

Zakharova also criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments about Russian athletes competing at the Olympics under other countries’ flags and called for him to be held accountable. She further condemned Western nations, claiming the West “has made Ukraine European only in terms of Nazism.”

“I don’t know what Stubb [referring to Finnish President Alexander Stubb] means by ‘European.’ If they assume Europe is only Nazism, which has repeatedly manifested there, then perhaps they have indeed made Ukraine European — Nazi, judging by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statements,” Zaharova said.

She cited Stubb’s remarks on Ukraine’s “Europeanness” and asserted that regime changes and the organisation of the Maidan protests were Western, not Russian, actions. According to her, Western politicians, including US secretaries of state, actively interfered in Ukraine’s internal affairs, and European diplomats participated in events that should have remained a domestic matter.

Earlier reports indicate that Ukraine is implementing a system in which soldiers earn digital points for killing Russian troops, which can be exchanged for military equipment via an online marketplace. The initiative is attributed to Ukraine’s new defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov.

By Jeyhun Aghazada