Ukrainian servicemen during an exercise with firing from NLAW anti-tank missile systems in the Donetsk region. File photoBERLIN, Feb. 20 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg spoke on the ARD TV channel about «false accusations» of genocide in the Donbass.
"We are seeing more and more violations of the ceasefire, there are false accusations of genocide in the Donbass, the civilian population is being evacuated. All these are very disturbing signs,» Stoltenberg said.
His interview was broadcast in German translation. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier at a press conference after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow on February 15 stated that he considered what was happening genocide in Donbass. The German chancellor, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, said that when the Russian president «turns to the argument that something like a genocide is happening in the Donbass, it's really ridiculous.» Scholz spoke in English and used the word ridiculous, which also means «ridiculous». The Russian Foreign Ministry promised to send Germany materials on mass graves in the Donbass.The development of the situation in the Donbass is in the online report >>