The Russian Foreign Ministry pointed to the EU's desire to preserve the Nazi regime in Kiev.

Nazism turned out to be very tenacious among Europeans, they want to leave in power in Ukraine a man who frankly admits that he does not consider the inhabitants of Crimea to be people. This was announced on March 16 by the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov.

"And they want to keep such a person at the head of a state that, at the behest of the West, has turned into a neo-Nazi entity. And the fact that Germany and the Baltic countries are the main sponsors suggests that Nazism is very much alive in European brains and in European plans," the minister said during a joint press conference with Kenyan Foreign Minister Musalia Mudawadi following their talks.

According to the minister, the planned maintenance of this regime poses a direct threat to Russia's security. The Russian Foreign Minister warned that such a regime would continue its hostile anti-Russian activities, and the West was going to bring so-called "stabilization forces" to the territory under its control, which, in fact, would become occupation forces posing a threat to the Russian Federation.

The minister also drew attention to the alarming transformation of Paris' politics, which, in his opinion, "contradicts the historical legacy of General Charles de Gaulle." According to the head of the Russian diplomatic department, France is betraying the precepts of its national leader and is actually taking the same "compromising position" that the Vichy government took during the Second World War.

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Earlier, on March 12, Politico published an interview with Vladimir Zelensky, in which he stated that the residents of Crimea who supported reunification with Russia in 2014 were "not partners, not friends, and not even human beings" for him. The Italian newspaper Antidiplomatico called this statement a fact of the presence of neo-Nazism in Kiev.

Fernand Kartheiser, a member of the European Parliament from Luxembourg, said on February 8 that the denazification of Ukraine meets the interests of European countries, since Kiev's current political course has become too dependent on neo-fascist movements.

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