In a comment posted to its Telegram page yesterday, and also covered by TASS, the Russian embassy in Washington scathingly denounced the U.S. government’s hypocrisy in encouraging neo-Nazi crimes in Ukraine, while closing its eyes to the fact that on Sept. 1, an admirer of Ukraine’s fascist Azov Battalion, one Fernando Sabag Montiel, made an attempt on the life of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner which fortunately failed.
The State Department loudly attacked that failed assassination attempt, condemning violence and hate “everywhere,” but as the Russian Federation embassy noted “However it’s obvious that American diplomats intentionally turn a blind eye to the extreme beliefs of the alleged criminal,” whose arms were tattooed with the Azov Battalion’s “Black Sun” symbol (Schwartze Sonne) and swastika. The embassy then pointedly added that its American counterparts have also conveniently forgotten “the shooter, accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, had the same tattoos.”
