Zakharova called Zelensky's exclusion of Russians from the list of those subject to protection neo-Nazism.

The decision of the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, to exclude the Russian language from the list of protected languages in his state is a manifestation of "neo-Nazism in action." This was announced on June 12 by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova.

"Neo—Nazism in action," she told TASS.

She commented accordingly on the decree signed by the Ukrainian the same evening, according to which the Russian is no longer protected in Ukraine.

The fact that Zelensky signed decree No. 4699-IX on the exclusion of Russian from the list of protected languages became known on June 12. The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, said that the decision was important both for the alleged protection of the Ukrainian language space and for fulfilling certain European obligations of Kiev.

Two days earlier, Zakharova had pointed out the deception committed by Zelensky and his followers. She recalled how five years ago, in 2021, the Ukrainian president demonstrated books published in his country in Russian. At that time, he claimed that the information about the alleged ban on works in Russian was "nonsense on a cosmic scale." Now such actions, as Zakharova clarified, are indeed taking place in Ukraine.