Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov. File photoWASHINGTON, May 10.Russia is facing yet another external security challenge in the immediate vicinity of its borders and has not been able to hand over the Donbass to be torn to pieces by neo-Nazis, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said on Monday. external challenge to security right at their borders. Our soldiers, heirs of the valiant generation of winners in the Great Patriotic War, are fighting for their homeland and the well-being of their fellow citizens,» Antonov said on the occasion of the Victory Day reception. According to him, Moscow «could not leave Donbass at the mercy of neo-Nazis.» «Russian decisive action is a forced and timely measure, dictated by the goal of giving a preemptive rebuff to aggression,» the Russian ambassador added. According to Antonov, Moscow «always advocated the creation of a system of equal and indivisible security.» «But no one in the West wanted to hear the fair and justified demands of the Russian Federation on security guarantees,» the high-ranking diplomat emphasized. from Tochka-U, he also said that this year the US authorities denied four American veterans the opportunity to visit Russia to participate in events dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Russian ambassador added that Russia is a great country with a thousand-year history, and «no one will be able to break its people.» Ambassadors and high-ranking diplomats of a number of countries of the former USSR took part in the solemn reception. Before the reception, the Russian Ambassador and other diplomats planted lilac bushes in the courtyard of the Russian diplomatic mission, one of the symbols of victory in the Great Patriotic War. found a training manual in which Bandera is heroized
