The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 29The authorities of Kyiv, in Russophobic hysteria, seek to destroy the friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. «de-Russification» to rename a number of Kyiv streets and public places in honor of the Ukrainian «righteous among the world» who saved Jews during the Great Patriotic War.In Kyiv, the Vatutin tram stop was renamed in honor of ShukhevychZakharova emphasized that Russophobic hysteria has become a familiar sign of the times, the authorities of Kyiv, seeking to «destroy the friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples», are trying to deprive Ukrainians of the memory of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, the exploits of commanders and soldiers of the Red Army.» At the same time, the position of the official representative of the State of Israel, who in his statement pretends that he only means to perpetuate the memory of «people who saved Jews during the Holocaust — the real heroes of the Ukrainian people,» is puzzling. words about how this is supposed to be done,» Zakharova said in a statement. , the Israeli ambassador forgets that during the Great Patriotic War, mass Jewish pogroms and executions in Ukraine were carried out during active participation of local nationalists and collaborators, whom Kyiv honors and glorifies today. «As a result of the Israeli diplomat's flirting with the current Kyiv regime, the proposed new names of city objects dedicated to people who in fact selflessly saved Jews may appear next to the names of those pseudo-heroes, who is directly responsible for the deaths of civilians during World War II, including thousands of Jews. The perpetrators of the Holocaust should not be glorified in any way,» the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized. Russian and Ukrainian workers
