MOSCOW, June 19. /TASS/. The Ukrainian government is afraid that ending the war will lead to the fall of their regime, the Russian Foreign Ministry said while commenting on the publication of a new report on the human rights situation in Ukraine.
"The use of a wide range of repressive measures against much of the population is necessary for Kiev as the only and surest way to maintain power. It is important for it to continue the war, maintain a high degree of societal tension and redirect attention to external confrontation. Ending all this and establishing peace will lead to the fall of the Kiev regime, for which power is more important than the lives of people whom it does not consider its own," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry said that "various manifestations of neo-Nazism are intensifying in Ukraine, including aggressive propaganda of this ideology, falsification of the history of the Great Patriotic War and World War II to glorify the Nazis and their accomplices, as well as the cultivation of nationalist sentiments among the population.
"There are a large number of facts confirming all this - the glorification of the Nazi criminal Stepan Bandera in various ways, the glorification of the SS Galicia division and the honoring of the few surviving former Nazis," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
