Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said today that the West “supports genocide” in Ukraine, supporting the president’s peace plan Vladimir Zelenskywhich, according to him, “will destroy everything Russian” in the east of Ukraine and in the Crimea.

Lavrov, speaking during a trip to Africa, provided no evidence to support his claim. Russia has long accused the West of being indifferent to what it calls the persecution of Russian speakers in the eastern province of Donbass and elsewhere.

“The conclusion is very simple – the West directly supports the genocideLavrov stated this at a press conference with his Burundian counterpart.

Zelenskiy’s peace plan calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from all over Ukraine, including the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow forcibly annexed in 2014.

Speaking the same day, Russia accused her Ukraine Lavrov said that the West had carried out the largest ever drone strike on Moscow, the West was directly helping Kyiv in carrying out such “terrorist” strikes by supplying it with military equipment.

“The statements of the West that the weapons it supplies (to Ukraine) should not be used against the territory of the Russian Federation are another lie,” he said.

Lavrov also said that US Senator Lindsey Graham’s comment could be regarded as incitement to kill Russians.

In an edited video released by Zelenskiy’s office last Friday, Graham was seen during a meeting with the President of Ukraine in Kiev, saying that “Russians are being killed” and then saying that US support “is the best money we’ve ever spent.”.

Because the Russia after criticizing these remarks, Ukraine released a full video of the meeting last Sunday, which shows that the two remarks are not directly related.

Graham said he was simply praising Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion with aid provided by Washington.

According to APE-MPE and Reuters