Russia’s Foreign Ministry compared Zelenskyy to leaders of the Third Reich

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s policies, in terms of brutality, have long surpassed those of “idols from the Third Reich.”

This opinion was voiced by Alexander Grushko, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, TASS reports.

According to him, the current Ukrainian authorities are exterminating civilians in the same territories that were occupied by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), and are doing so under the same symbols that, he claimed, are now displayed on the insignia of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The diplomat added that the West prefers not to notice this.

The day before, Sergey Lavrov said that Zelenskyy’s statement at the Munich Security Conference showed that he does not want a peaceful settlement of the conflict. The minister also recalled earlier statements by the Ukrainian president in which he referred to the population living in the Donbas as “creatures,” according to the report.