MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it has prepared another report about the human rights situation in Ukraine.
"The situation around the encouragement and protection of human rights in Ukraine has noticeably worsened in the past 18 months, and the trends we are witnessing in this area are very alarming," Russia’s diplomatic agency said.
Ever since the incumbent government came to power in Ukraine in 2014, it has been suppressing human rights, opposition and dissent as it is dead set on quashing all things Russian, the ministry emphasized.
"Moreover, the Kiev regime has recently imposed an authoritarian rule over the country under the cover of martial law <…>. Having adopted the ideology and practices of Ukrainian nationalist radicals, the current regime has actually transformed itself into a neo-Nazi dictatorship," according to the report.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said almost the only sphere where the Kiev regime has been taking any initiative was in glorifying Nazism and falsifying history. Meanwhile, Kiev’s clampdown on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has triggered a large-scale seizure of its churches, has reached "a whole new level in terms of cynicism and hypocrisy."
"The powers that be in Kiev need the state of war and use a wide range of repressive measures as the safest, and only, way of extending their existence," the ministry said in the report.
To Russia’s MFA, similar actions on the part of the authorities in Kiev are clear evidence of a neo-Nazi regime that has been imposed by outside forces and not independently as Ukraine takes instructions from external curators to turn their own country into an anti-Russia project.