Ukrainian officials on Saturday condemned a message from the Russian embassy in Great Britain calling for “humiliating” executions of Azov battalion fighters, The Guardian and France-Presse reported.

The Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in Great Britain has published an extremely harsh message, which claims that “members of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion deserve to die by hanging.”

What the Russian Embassy writes in the message:

• “Azov fighters deserve to be executed, but not by firing squad, but by hanging, because they are not real soldiers. They deserve a humiliating death.”

Twitter said the post violated its “hateful conduct” rules, but chose to post a warning instead of removing the post about Ukraine’s Azov battalion, which has been accused of supporting the far right, in its entirety.

In addition, the Russian call came a day after an attack on a prison in the Russian-occupied east of the country, where Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held, including many soldiers of the Azov regiment, which killed more than 50 people and others. dozens of wounded.

Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reacted in Telegram:

“Russia is a terrorist state. In the 21st century, only savages and terrorists can diplomatically talk about the fact that people deserve to be hanged. Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. What other evidence is needed?” – he wrote.

“Read this when you say that Russia should not be isolated. There is no difference between Russian diplomats who call for the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian troops who do it at Olenivka. All of them are involved in these war crimes and should be held accountable,” Ukrainian diplomacy spokesman Oleg Nikolenko wrote on Twitter.

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