Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin programme, September 8, 2024

Question: The Kiev regime renames everything. Now they are drafting a project of renaming the copeck to have nothing in common with the Russian language. Will it be possible to reverse everything happening there one day?

Sergey Lavrov: The Ukrainian people in general are brotherly to us – we don't just talk about it, we know it. Those, whom the West has brought to power through an unconstitutional coup d'état, are executing its order – to turn the country one more time into a Nazi threat for the Russian Federation.

It is already clear to everyone that it cannot be done. However, the convulsions and the agony, which we are now witnessing, including in the course of the “Kursk action” are evident to everyone. Our cause is just.