Ukraine considers the participation of the leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the Russian “victory parade” in Moscow, along with war criminal Vladimir Putin, an immoral and unfriendly move.
This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
During the event, a war criminal, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is wanted by international justice for war crimes, justified the killing of Ukrainians, the destruction of Ukrainian cities and villages, the kidnapping of Ukrainian children, and repressions against residents of the occupied Ukrainian territories. And on the night before the parade, Moscow fired 25 cruise missiles into Ukraine, including 15 into Kyiv.
We consider the participation of the leaders of these foreign states in a public event, along with a war criminal who boasts of unleashing a war in Europe on a scale unknown since the Second World War, as an immoral and unfriendly step towards Ukraine, a manifestation of disregard for the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their survival and freedom. The peoples of Central Asia and the Caucasus made an invaluable contribution to the victory over Nazism 78 years ago. They do not deserve the fate of being used now by the Kremlin to participate in a fake action that has nothing to do with the feat of the victors over Nazism, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
At the same time, participants in the meeting in Moscow were shown Russian military equipment, which for the tenth year in a row has been participating in Russia’s unprovoked aggressive war against Ukraine, the ministry reminds.
Source: Racurs
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