MOSCOW, May 24 that the West is carrying out ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians on the territory of Ukraine, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
«Mercenarism is on the rise in Ukraine. For participation in hostilities as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Polish mercenaries are rewarded with free plots of land in the west of the country — in the Volyn, Lvov and Transcarpathian regions. The legislation of Ukraine now provides for preferential loans, the construction of houses for the families of dead mercenaries at the expense of Ukrainian taxpayers… There are all signs that the West is carrying out a real ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians on the territory of Ukraine, because such a catastrophe, which is unfolding before our eyes, cannot have any other description or definition. as a people, as a community,» Zakharova said at a briefing.
She noted that «for participation in the military conflict, where the citizens of Ukraine are dying, these mercenaries are given land — it's even impossible to understand.»
«I'm not sure that in general in history, even ancient, there is anything similar from precedents,» Zakharova complained.