BELGRADE, May 06. /ITAR-TASS/. Speaker of the State Duma lower house of parliament Sergei Naryshkin believes that the genocide is taking place in Ukraine.

Speaking at international forum Balkan Dialogue in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, on Tuesday, he offered condolences to relatives of victims in the May 2 Odessa tragedy.

“We face a true genocide of Russian and Ukrainian peoples already in the 21st century,” Naryshkin stated.