First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry PolyanskyUN, Mar 30Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN, cited examples of manifestations of Nazism in Ukraine for US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who tried to reject them, arguing that Vladimir Zelensky is a Jew. On Tuesday, the UN Security Council held a meeting on the topic of the humanitarian situation in Ukraine. Russia again pointed to the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists. Meanwhile, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman decided to challenge the thesis about the presence of manifestations of Nazism in Ukraine. The diplomat said that «as a Jewess and a citizen of the United States,» she cannot but say that «what is happening in Ukraine is not about the Nazis.» At the same time, she recalled that «the Jewish president of Ukraine is definitely not a Nazi.» In response, Polyansky noted that references to Zelensky's Jewish origin, who allegedly cannot be a Nazi for this reason, have already become a common excuse. After that, he cited the fact of manifestations of Nazism in Ukraine.
"You know who Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are. You know how much these people have done bad for humanity. These are people who collaborated with the Nazis, who are involved in the murders of Jews, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians. When in doubt, ask the Poles about it. Not Polish politicians, but ordinary people of Poland. I worked in Poland for three years. I know very well how they treat Bandera in Poland", the diplomat said.
The first deputy representative pointed out to Sherman that Bandera and Shukhevych were national heroes of Ukraine. He also recalled that there are Nazi symbols on the chevrons of the nationalist Ukrainian battalions, and even NATO had to remove the portrait of a Ukrainian soldier from its official page because the Nazi symbol was present on her chevron.
The prisoners reported Kyiv's instructions to prepare a video with massacres «Of course, this does not mean anything if you have a Nazi symbol on your sleeve. Of course, if your fighters torture prisoners and burn swastikas on their chests, this also means nothing — from your point of view If the president of a country believes that the national hero of this country is the person who fought with Hitler and killed Jews, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians, from your point of view, this also means nothing. «, — said the Russian diplomat. This is the opinion of the majority of residents of Russia and Ukraine, Polyansky concluded. Sherman did not respond to the statement of the Russian deputy representative. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian military, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, Putin emphasized.