Matvienko criticized the EU for banning politicians from coming to the Victory Day Parade in Russia

The European Union (EU) has reached the highest degree of cynicism, forbidding politicians to come to the Victory Day Parade in Russia. This was announced on April 16 by Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko at a plenary session of the House of Parliament.

She noted that the ideological, moral and value crises in Europe today are difficult to ignore.

"European officials have reached the highest degree of unscrupulousness and cynicism, when they already allow themselves, in the format of a European dictatorship, to demand from the heads of sovereign states not to attend the Victory Day Parade in Moscow. This is a desecration of the memory of millions of people who gave their lives for the liberation of Europe and the world from the fascist plague," she stressed.

According to Matvienko, European politicians are turning a blind eye to neo-Nazism that is rearing its head and are cultivating such Nazi regimes on the continent as the Kiev regime.

"Of course, such a Europe does not need those who remember and honor not fake, not perverted, but real history," she concluded.

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Earlier, on April 14, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaya Kallas, warned European officials that if they visited Russia to participate in Victory celebrations, they would face "consequences."

Commenting on this, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called her statement harsh and incorrect, and also noted that such threats should be assessed by those states to which they are addressed.