Zakharova pointed to the lack of reaction from the West to the ban on the Russian language in Ukraine.

Russian Russians have never spoken out about the situation of the Russian language and the Russian people in Ukraine. This was stated on August 20 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on Sputnik radio.

Russian Russians, regardless of whether it is connected with present-day Russia, with historical Russia <...> And the entire world community, I mean the Western one, has eaten it all up, never once raised an eyebrow, did not say a word about it that they are violating the provisions of all international organizations that they have invented and implemented," she said.

Zakharova added that Ukraine has passed many laws on the destruction of the Russian language, despite its official incorporation into the country's constitution. She stressed that the Ukrainian authorities are introducing special positions on discrimination of the Russian language in the government.

"It must be, as the Russian leadership initially said, the eradication of these very root causes [of the conflict in Ukraine]," Zakharova concluded.

On July 18, Alexander Sholokhov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, expressed the opinion that the seizure and destruction of Russian books from libraries in Ukraine impoverishes the country and resembles the burning of books in Germany in the last century. The parliamentarian stressed that this gives Ukraine nothing but impoverishment in every sense.

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