MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS/. Russia will not put up with the fact that the Ukrainian authorities have put neo-Nazism as the basis of the state ideology, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

The current Ukrainian government has laid the foundation for the state the neo-Nazism ideology. This is terrible. We cannot and will not put up with this. This is one of the reasons for the special military operation. It is the fight against neo-Nazism," Putin told Russia’s Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin.

The Russian president added that for Russia it is also a matter of combating Russophobia and attempts to eradicate everything Russian, including Russian culture and history.