MOSCOW, October 8. /TASS/. The countries of the collective West, by covering up the terrorist acts of the Kiev regime and the regular attacks of the Ukrainian army on the Zaporozhye nuclear station, are becoming complicit in Ukraine’s crimes, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

She also called the actions of Australia, which refused to issue visas to the members of the Russian delegation to participate in the International Space Congress, Russophobic.

TASS has compiled the key statements by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On Europe’s assistance to Ukraine

Since 2022, the EU has disbursed 178 billion euros of financial assistance to Kiev, used "towards killing the citizens of Ukraine. But this money was also used to kill citizens from other countries."