MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. The exhumation of Soviet soldiers' remains at the "Hill of Glory" in Lvov and the subsequent proposal by the city's mayor, Andrey Sadovy, to exchange them for Ukrainian armed forces prisoners reflect an extreme degree of degradation bordering on savagery, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted in his article titled "Half a Century of the Helsinki Act: Expectations, Reality, Prospects," published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Lavrov noted that despite the OSCE's declared commitment to defending and protecting human rights as one of the organization's fundamental aims, "Western countries themselves, the Secretary General, and all OSCE institutions maintain a deathly silence while watching the actions of the Kiev regime."
"The neo-Nazis have stooped to fighting those who died in battles to liberate Ukraine from Hitlerism. An extreme level of cultural collapse, bordering on savagery, was demonstrated in Lvov, where exhumations of Soviet soldiers' remains were carried out at the 'Hill of Glory,' and the city’s mayor [Andrey Sadovy] proposed exchanging them for Ukrainian armed forces soldiers captured by our military," Lavrov pointed out.
The Russian foreign minister emphasized that discussions on human rights have been exploited by the West from the outset for "patronizing lectures, imposing neoliberal values, and attempts to create a loyal 'fifth column' in countries 'east of Vienna' through establishing and funding a network of 'independent' NGOs and media, but never to denounce the Russophobic policies pursued by the Kiev regime since 2017." "People are being denied the right to study, read, access information, or even speak in their native language," he elaborated. "The regime has also violated such a sensitive sphere as religion, launching a campaign against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and recently stripped its primate of citizenship."
