Mandatory credit: Russian Defence Ministry
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has claimed that the West 'condones' Ukraine's 'widespread propagation of Nazism', during a meeting of the Council of Defence Ministers of CIS member states in Minsk on Wednesday.
"Today, the United States and its allies are seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine," Belousov noted. "I would like to repeat once again that it was the West that prepared and provoked the Ukrainian crisis and is now deliberately dragging it out. Moreover, Western countries are in every possible way condoning Ukraine’s interim government in its widespread propagation of Nazism in its most extreme manifestations, making every effort to distort historical truth."
The Defence Minister added that the CIS countries were united 'in the fight against the glorification of Nazism and the distortion of history'.
On Wednesday, Belousov was unanimously elected chairman of the Council of Defence Ministers of the CIS member states.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
West 'condones' Ukraine's 'widespread propagation of Nazism' - Russian DefMin Belousov
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has claimed that the West 'condones' Ukraine's 'widespread propagation of Nazism', during a meeting of the Council of Defence Ministers of CIS member states in Minsk on Wednesday.
"Today, the United States and its allies are seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine," Belousov noted. "I would like to repeat once again that it was the West that prepared and provoked the Ukrainian crisis and is now deliberately dragging it out. Moreover, Western countries are in every possible way condoning Ukraine’s interim government in its widespread propagation of Nazism in its most extreme manifestations, making every effort to distort historical truth."
The Defence Minister added that the CIS countries were united 'in the fight against the glorification of Nazism and the distortion of history'.
On Wednesday, Belousov was unanimously elected chairman of the Council of Defence Ministers of the CIS member states.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Mandatory credit: Russian Defence Ministry
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has claimed that the West 'condones' Ukraine's 'widespread propagation of Nazism', during a meeting of the Council of Defence Ministers of CIS member states in Minsk on Wednesday.
"Today, the United States and its allies are seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine," Belousov noted. "I would like to repeat once again that it was the West that prepared and provoked the Ukrainian crisis and is now deliberately dragging it out. Moreover, Western countries are in every possible way condoning Ukraine’s interim government in its widespread propagation of Nazism in its most extreme manifestations, making every effort to distort historical truth."
The Defence Minister added that the CIS countries were united 'in the fight against the glorification of Nazism and the distortion of history'.
On Wednesday, Belousov was unanimously elected chairman of the Council of Defence Ministers of the CIS member states.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.