Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the Ukrainian crisis
In an effort to distract the attention of its Western handlers from problems on the frontline, including the fiasco of the so-called counteroffensive, the neo-Nazi Kiev regime continues to launch pointless strikes against civilian facilities in Russia, with the Ukrainian and foreign media actively covering them.
In the early hours of August 25, Russia thwarted another attack involving an upgraded S-200 surface-to-air missile and 42 drones launched from Ukrainian territory. Air defence units detected and destroyed the missile over the Kaluga Region. All drones in the vicinity of Crimea were also neutralised.
In the early hours of August 23, the Kiev regime tried to attack Moscow using three drones. No one was hurt.
A strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Lava, Belgorod Region, killed three civilians. Attacks continue unabated on Energodar, where the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is located. On August 22, Ukrainian nationalists tried to cross the border and enter the Bryansk Region. The well-coordinated work of Russian law-enforcement agencies made it possible to repel the attack. The barbaric actions of the Kiev regime mostly affect the civilian population.
The neo-Nazis entrenched in Kiev openly admit to perpetrating terrorist attacks, which prompts the conclusion that they intend to continue their criminal activities. On August 5, 2023, Vasily Malyuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, confirmed that the Ukrainian special services were conducting acts of sabotage on the Crimean Bridge. Kirill Budanov, Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, recently announced new strikes against Crimea. Alexey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, is obsessed with “liberating” the peninsula by military force. Obviously, the Kiev regime cannot reconcile itself with the fact that the people of Crimea decided to side with Russia in 2014.
The bombardment of cities in Donbass by the Armed Forces of Ukraine highlights the attitude of Ukrainian neo-Nazis towards their former compatriots. Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said in a recent interview with the RT television channel that Kiev had launched at least 104 cluster munitions against Donetsk throughout August. The attacks killed seven people and wounded 17, including one child. On August 24, the media reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had launched an attack using cluster munitions against the Bryansk Region.
Work continues on exposing and punishing the Ukrainian neo-Nazis guilty of shelling the civilian population, mistreating civilians, attempted murders and murders, including murders committed in a way that jeopardises the local population based on political and ideological hatred and enmity.
In the past week, Russian courts studied the evidence collected by the Russian Investigative Committee and sentenced 11 Ukrainian servicemen, including five militants from the Azov nationalist unit (a terrorist organisation banned in Russia), namely, A. Klementovich, I. Melnikovich, A. Sivitsky, V. Gumenyuk and M. Onipchenko (sentenced in absentia). They will serve terms ranging from 16 to 24 years at maximum security penitentiaries.
Many of these criminals killed people for only one reason: they suspected their victims of sympathising with Russia and the Russian World. The forerunners of contemporary Ukrainian punitive units had already tried to eradicate all things Russian during World War II. This led to the demise of Nazi Germany and its allies, with the International Military Tribunal sentencing Nazis in Nuremberg. A similar fate awaits the regime of Vladimir Zelensky and all his accomplices. None of them will be able to escape just punishment for their crimes.
In this context, we would like to draw attention to the book by Maxim Grigoriev and Dmitry Sablin entitled Ukrainian Crimes against Humanity (2022-2023), which was published with the assistance of the Foundation for the Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad. The book contains chilling facts about the killing of civilians by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, collected by the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and their accomplices, the use of civilians as human shields, torture, shelling of civilian infrastructure, including blocks of flats, hospitals, kindergartens, and schools, as well as mass mining of populated areas, etc. The book also offers a timeline of Ukrainian shelling and terrorist acts in 2022 - 2023. (An electronic version of this publication is available in the public domain).
Despite the suffering of the civilians in Russia and Ukraine, the United States and its satellites continue to flood the neo-Nazi Kiev regime with weapons. The Czech Army is preparing to hand over its Russian-made Mi-24V helicopters to Kiev after receiving US attack helicopters. Last week, after Zelensky's “begging tour” of European countries, including the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, it transpired that their authorities were planning to transfer F-16 fighter jets to Kiev. These actions confirm the Westerners’ hostile attitude towards Russia and their growing involvement in the conflict surrounding Ukraine.
Every schoolchild in Russia knows how the appearance of Swedish weapons at Poltava more than three centuries ago ended for that country. However, the lessons of the past do not seem to teach Europeans anything. As we can see, the revanchist instincts of the countries that tried to attack Russia but suffered a defeat have not been eradicated to this day.
Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar arms supplies to the criminal Kiev regime are raising an increasing number of questions among the Western public. In the United States, a presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr said that the supply of F-16 jets to Kiev would be a disaster for Ukraine. Member of the US House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene noted that Washington had sent $113 billion to Ukraine and wanted to allocate another $20 billion, but the West's anti-Russia sanctions had failed because Russia was getting richer and the United States was getting poorer. She called on the United States to stop sponsoring Kiev.
Naturally, people in the West are increasingly concerned about what is happening to the billions of dollars which could have been used to improve the lives of their own citizens, but are instead being sent by their countries’ authorities to Kiev. Russia once again calls on the NATO countries’ leaders to take care of things at home and to listen to the voice of their own public instead of thoughtlessly and irresponsibly flooding the Zelensky-led neo-Nazi regime with weapons.
The increasing calls for the Ukraine conflict to be resolved through talks once again raise the issue of the impossibility of trusting Kiev and its Western handlers. We must not forget the way they treated the Minsk agreements, which gave a real chance for a peaceful settlement of the Donbass conflict. Eight years after they had been signed, former Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko, former French President Francois Hollande, and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, all of whom are now part of political history, confessed that Kiev had no plans of implementing them, and that the West used them to buy time to strengthen Ukraine militarily.
The Kiev regime’s refusal to act upon the Normandy format Paris summit agreements signed by the leaders in December 2019 provides further strong evidence of its lying nature. One of the agreed upon items was Kiev's obligation to agree with representatives of the DPR and the LPR on all legal aspects of Donbass’ special status which was later openly confirmed by Andrey Bogdan, the then head of the Ukrainian President’s Office.
It became known recently that the Azov national formation fighters (recognised as terrorist and banned in Russia) who were supposed to stay in Türkiye until the end of the conflict, resumed their participation in the hostilities against Russia. All this shows that the agreements with Kiev and its Western patrons aren’t worth a penny.
Now, we are witnessing the Westerners and their Kiev underlings using a new trick. They are actively promoting Zelensky's so-called peace formula which in reality has nothing to do with peace and contains only a set of ultimatums that are unacceptable to Russia. In reality, they are cobbling up an anti-Russia coalition, and are trying to draw our Global South partners into it.
Meanwhile, they continue to demand that Ukraine conduct the notorious counter-offensive, they go on sending weapons to the criminal regime in Kiev, train the Ukrainian military, send mercenaries, and provide Kiev with intelligence for strikes against our country.
In early August, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted an appeal to foreign parliaments, governments and international organisations in connection with the upcoming local elections in Russia on September 10. Ukrainian parliamentarians are asking foreign countries not to recognise their legitimacy in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. These actions show that Kiev is once again demonstrating the fact that it does not care about the opinion of the millions of voters residing in these Russian regions, who do not want to have anything to do with the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.
All of the above confirms the fact that the goals and objectives of the special military operation to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine and eliminate threats to Russia's security remain in force. All of them will be achieved in full.
