Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States Anatoly AntonovWASHINGTON, Feb. 18 rejecting the genocide of Russians in the Donbass, demonstrate cynicism, said Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov. Earlier, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said that there were “no grounds” for allegations of genocide in Donbass and such assessments are disturbing.
" indignation and indignation. How else can one regard the shelling of residential areas by Ukrainian security forces using multiple rocket launchers? Or the discovered mass graves of almost 300 civilians near Luhansk, who died only because they considered Russian as their mother tongue?", Antonov said in a statement posted on the embassy's Facebook page.
In this series, the diplomat also mentioned the tragic events in Odessa on May 2, 2014, as a result of which 48 people died, and the perpetrators have not yet been punished. gross cynicism. «It turns out that Washington's beautiful slogans about the highest value of human rights are not worth a penny. The main geopolitical goal of the United States is to push Russia as far east as possible,» he said. 
In the LPR, they announced new shelling by the Ukrainian security forces With this goal, Antonov noted, Washington «is pursuing a line to squeeze the Russian-speaking population out of their current places of residence.» The Americans, he stressed, not only ignore attempts to forcibly assimilate Russians in Ukraine, but also «indulge this in every possible way with political and military support.» «The United States must understand that millions of Russians live in Ukraine, whose interests must be ensured and protected. In this is a guarantee of the stability of Ukrainian statehood and territorial integrity,» he stressed. Representatives of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics said on Thursday morning that the armed forces of Ukraine opened fire on their positions. The representative of the People's Militia of the DPR emphasized that the deployment of Ukrainian artillery, prohibited by the Minsk agreements, near the settlements of Donbass indicates preparations for a military solution. Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov claims that Kiev is not planning any military actions and military operations. According to him, the Ukrainian authorities intend to act in a political and diplomatic way.Putin called the situation in Donbass a genocide De-escalation is being discussed at a meeting of the contact group in the Belarusian capital, based on the Minsk agreements. The document provides for a constitutional reform, a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact. At the same time, now the Ukrainian authorities have concentrated most of the army on the border with the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR and regularly fire on the militias, including using prohibited equipment. Western countries that provide diplomatic and military support to Kiev, during the last series of meetings and negotiations, repeatedly called on Kiev to comply Minsk agreements. In particular, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on all parties to adhere to the agreements. According to the head of the German government, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky promised to submit draft laws on the special status of Donbass, constitutional reform and suffrage for discussion in the contact group on Ukraine. jpg» />Lavrov urged the West «not to shirk a serious conversation» because of Ukraine