MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. The manipulation surrounding Russian service members indicates that numerous Western governments are becoming accomplices to the crimes by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday.

The diplomat pointed out that as early as April 1, the Kiev regime notified the UK Foreign Office that it "does not intend to comply with the Geneva Convention concerning the treatment of Russian prisoners of war."

"Indeed, this did not start today. Throughout all these years it went on and on in relation to other people - militia people, civilians, children, women and the elderly. They did do such things as burying [people] alive and killing, and burning their ritual symbols out on human bodies," the diplomat said.

"These manipulations around Russian service members demonstrate that the authorities of many Western countries are turning into accomplices to the inhuman crimes by Ukrainian neo-Nazis," she said.