FACT CHECK: Did Zelenskyy order ethnic Russians to move from Ukraine to Russia? | VOA News
On July 16, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a United Nations Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation.
Speaking before the 15-member council, which Russia presides over during the month of July, Lavrov repeated the Kremlin’s invalid talking points trying to justify a decadelong campaign of Russian aggression that has killed scores of civilians and devastated Ukraine.
The Kremlin claims, falsely, that Russia occupies those parts of Ukraine where ethnically Russian Ukrainians align with the Russian state culturally and ideologically.
Russia’s top diplomat called Zelenskyy “racist” and accused the government in Kyiv of discriminating against ethnic Russians.
“[I]n 2021, V.A. Zelenskyy, in one of his interviews, ordered those who feel connected to the Russian culture to get out [of Ukraine] to Russia for the sake of the future of their children and grandchildren,” Lavrov said.
Lavrov falsified Zelenskyy’s statement.
The Russian foreign minister seems to be referring to an August 2021 Zelenskyy interview with Dom TV, a Ukrainian state television channel broadcasting in Russian language to the partially Russian-occupied territories of Donbas and Crimea.
During that interview, Zelenskyy responded to the Kremlin’s claims saying, “The people who live in the territory of the occupied Donbas and Crimea must understand clearly: This is not that someone [is] kicking somebody out.
“I would like to be clear: Once again — either [Ukraine] is your Motherland, or you are a guest,” he added, speaking in Russian. “I consider it a big mistake to remain in Donbas if you live in the temporarily occupied territory and believe ‘our cause is righteous, we should be in Russia, we are Russians.’ This will never be a Russian territory. Never, as simple as that.”
Since that 2021 interview, Lavrov has been propagating a twisted version of Zelenskyy’s words to discredit Ukraine and its leadership. #factcheck #voanews
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10 comments
Instead of the Russians moving to Russia the Russians moved to Ukraine. Wompwomp Zelensky
Ethnic russians, really? Does he not know that there is no ethnic difference between european russians and ukrainians??? 🤦🏻♂️
That Zalenski sounds a right old racist
This is no different than allowing Goebbels to give a speech to the American people during WWII. Do not provide a platform for the propaganda of the war criminal, Lavrov!
35 trillion in debt, and counting. I don't care about Ukraine at this point, it's an incompetent corrupt cesspool and a pawn that chose wrong and needs to solve its own failures for making terrible geopolitical choices and being too weak and economically corrupt to take care of itself. Not sorry.
This lie falls into the category of "absolute lie", a lie that depends on the listener ignoring a fact that can be checked instantly: Zelenskiy is an ethnic Russian.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT GAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO AZOV, TO ETHNICALLY CLEANSE THE DONBASS
Main Ukrainian general is an ethnic Russian.
Do we care? The only important question is "How many divisions do you have?"
Not Russian aggression rather it was provocation on an enormous scale by the USA , UK and NATO.