Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 16 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov illustrated the problems of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine using the example of Ireland to a British journalist. «I explain to you that the Ukrainian regime is bombing its own population. And you are selling it weapons so that he continues to do this,” Lavrov said in an interview with the BBC. “About the genocide. Are you an Englishman? Imagine if in Ireland (not in Northern Ireland, but in the Republic of Ireland) the English language was banned. How would the British feel? — asked the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. To this, the British journalist replied: «they definitely wouldn't invade Ireland.» The minister asked him a counter question: «wouldn't that humiliate you?» Lavrov reminded him that «the Russian language is banned in Ukraine.» «Try on the street in Kyiv, when young people of a certain appearance are walking, to speak in Russian,» the minister added. over British mercenaries
