Zelensky’s Presence at Auschwitz Commemoration Was Disgusting: Zakharova

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C). X/ @Populiste63

February 2, 2025 Hour: 1:16 pm

Previously, his regime celebrated the birth of Bandera, who helped exterminate 1.6 million Jews, as a national day.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sharply criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s attendance at the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp on January 31.

“His presence at the ceremony marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army is disgusting in light of current Ukrainian politics,” she said.

“It was even more disgusting to see Zelensky at the ceremonies at Baby Yar and Auschwitz in Poland, which are holy sites, on the days when Holocaust victims are commemorated in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution,” Zakharova added.

The Russian diplomat deepened its criticism by pointing out that “this bigwig of the kyiv regime who signs with his own hands documents ordering the demolition of monuments and the glorification of Nazi collaborators and lackeys.”

Zelensky fue invitado hoy por la Unión Europea para participar en el aniversario de la liberación del campo de exterminio nazi de Auschwitz, en Polonia, mientras quién lo liberó, Rusia, fue vetada.

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The text reads, “Zelensky was invited by the European Union today to participate in the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland, while the liberator, Russia, was banned. A few weeks ago, Kyiv officially celebrated Stepan Bandera’s birthday as a national day. He and his nationalist organization OUN-UPA collaborated with Hitler in the extermination of 1.6 million Jews and over 100,000 Poles in Ukraine. It is disgusting how the West is rewriting history, humiliating the victims of the Holocaust, and trading on genocide to impose its imperialist interests.”

“This bigwig openly pities the victims of the Holocaust, although he is fully aware of the fact that in the Ukrainian army there are representatives of nationalist battalions with the same symbolism as the symbolism of the SS.”

“Why did he not mention that he literally elevated to the rank of saints those who have on their hands the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent women, old people and children of such nationalities as Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, and Belarusians?” Zakharova said, referring to Ukrainian ultranationalists Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and other fascist collaborators.

In an interview with Radio Sputnik on January 29, the Russian diplomat recalled that the Russian exhibition at the Auschwitz camp museum was closed in May 2022. This decision is part of the West’s attempts to rewrite the history of World War II.

“How is it possible that an exhibition organised by our country, which dealt with and illustrated facts that had never been the subject of any public objection, complaint or protest, was closed?” Zakharova asked indignantly.

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