Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “traitor to the Jewish individuals” and continued the Kremlin’s claims that he is “nazifying” Kyiv in an interview with Russian media on Monday.
” Volodymyr Zelensky made a 180-degree turn from an individual who concerned power with mottos of peace, with mottos like ‘leave the Russian language alone, it is our typical language, our typical culture’ and in 6 months developed into a pure Nazi and, as Russian President Vladimir Putin properly stated, a traitor to the Jewish individuals,” Lavrov informed Russian Defense Ministry media outlet Krasnaya Zvezda.
Later on in the interview, he stated that a long-lasting European existence in Ukraine after a prospective Russo-Ukrainian ceasefire would be undesirable to the Kremlin.
” Simply as they [the current regime in Kyiv] were given power on bayonets and pressed forward, they now wish to prop them up with their bayonets in the kind of peacekeeping systems. However this will indicate that the origin [of the war] will not vanish,” Lavrov stated.
He continued by highlighting that the Kremlin discovered any EU existence in the Russian-occupied locations of eastern Ukraine a hazard to the Russian language and culture.
When we ask these thinkers what will hypothetically occur to the part they take under control, they react that absolutely nothing will alter– it will stay Ukraine. I asked a single person: will the Russian language be prohibited there? He stated absolutely nothing. They can not utter words of condemnation for what has actually occurred,” he stated.
” No other language has actually dealt with such hostility. However envision if French or German were prohibited in Switzerland, or if English were prohibited in Ireland. Today, the Irish desire a bit more self-determination. Picture if English were prohibited there– then the whole UN would be shaken to its core, with needs to condemn Ireland. However here, it’s permitted. You inform them this to their faces, and they state absolutely nothing.”
Delegitimizing Ukraine
The Kremlin has actually consistently declared that Ukraine has no genuine culture or state, and it had actually constantly belonged to Russia’s “own history, culture, spiritual area,” in a decades-old project to delegitimize the nation’s sovereignty.
Lavrov’s interview with Krasnaya Zvezda follows a heated conference in between Zelensky and United States President Donald Trump. Russian authorities applauded Trump for his “correct slap down” of Zelensky and refuted the Ukrainian president’s assertions that the nation was unlawfully gotten into in 2022.
Kremlin representative Dimitri Peskov informed press reporters on Monday that Trump’s shakeup of diplomacy “mostly accompanies our [Russia’s] vision,” according to reporting from the Guardian
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