What is happening in Ukraine is no longer a hybrid, but a real war between the West and Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday, as quoted by TASS.

“When we talk about what is happening in Ukraine, we are talking about the fact that this is no longer a hybrid war, but a real war that the West has been preparing against Russia for a long time, trying to destroy everything that exists. Russian, from language to culture, which has existed in Ukraine for centuries, and people are forbidden to speak their native language,” said the head of Russian diplomacy.

“Both are former presidents [al Ucrainei Ucrainei, Petro] Poroshenko, like the current one [Volodimir] Zelensky, who was elected under the slogan of establishing peace, immediately after his election turned into war presidents, Russophobic presidents,” Lavrov said after talks with South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, who is on an official visit. to an African country.

Lavrov also accused Ukraine of adopting laws that prohibit Russian-language education, Russian-language mass media, “laws that actually prohibit the use of the Russian language in everyday life,” according to him.

“Any cultural contacts related to the Russian language are prohibited. And all this is supported by the West. Since the West supports the regular marches of neo-Nazis with swastikas, with the symbols of divisions, banned by the Nuremberg Tribunal, they are recognized as criminals. The West supports all this,” he also said in South Africa.

Sergey Lavrov accused the West of preparing the Russians for the Holocaust

The new comments from Russia’s foreign minister come after he made a series of wild claims last Wednesday, accusing Western countries of preparing a “final solution” to the “Russian question”, directly referring to the organized extermination of Jews during Nazi Germany.

“The United States, through its proxy Ukraine, is waging a war against our country with the same objective: the final solution to the Russian question,” he told reporters during his 2022 annual press conference after it was moved to the beginning of the year. being.

“Just as Hitler wanted a final solution to the Jewish question, now if you read what Western politicians say (…), they clearly say that Russia must be strategically defeated,” he emphasized, leaving no room for their interpretations. words

Interestingly, last week Lavrov also accused the US of preparing the ground for a conflict in Ukraine, but called the conflict launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24 a part of the “hybrid war” that the West is waging against Moscow.

Russian propaganda has been claiming for months that Russia is actually fighting in Ukraine against NATO and the “collective West” to explain a series of humiliating defeats and setbacks suffered by the country’s armed forces.

Putin himself spoke of the so-called “collective West,” as did many other officials in Moscow, a term that seems to have entered the common parlance of Russian propaganda.

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