Zakharova sharply commented on the words of the Rada deputy about Soviet soldiers

On March 28, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in an interview with Izvestia, sharply commented on the scandal that broke out in Ukraine after the publication on the social network of Verkhovna Rada deputy Natalia Pipa, who called Soviet soldiers scum.

"Pipa was not given the word. I'm sorry," Zakharova said.

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Earlier, Pipa published a photo taken at the Museum of the History of Ukraine in World War II, from which the inscription "Their exploits will live forever" was removed. In the caption to the image, she called the Soviet soldiers scum. After this statement, a scandal broke out in Ukraine. During the day, a lot of negative comments gathered under her post. The post was later deleted. Verkhovna Rada deputy Maxim Buzhansky called Pipa's signature autobiographical, and accused the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and the Ukrainian government of unwillingness to defend the honor of the fallen heroes.

On November 6, 2025, Zakharova noted that 82 years after the de-occupation of Ukraine, representatives of the Nazi ideology were once again dominating Kiev. Attempts to "destroy" the common past with the Soviet Union and Russia by erasing the memory of it are doomed, as Zakharova stressed, to failure. She added that the soldiers who fell for the liberation of this territory could hardly imagine that their descendants in Ukraine would desecrate their memory.

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