Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented July 7 on a “revelation” by the New York Times in its July 6 issue that Ukrainian forces were executing Russian prisoners and carrying out other war crimes, with an angry blast: “They act as if they are unaware of the torture inflicted on people by the Ukrainian army and security forces. Ridiculous,” Zakharova stated in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia. “It is amusing to watch how American journalists and media platforms pretend they knew nothing about the abuse of the peaceful population of Donbass, now new Russian regions, by the Kyiv regime.”
Zakharova noted that, although the atrocities of the Kyiv regime have long been known, the U.S. media previously chose to ignore multiple reports of human rights violations submitted by the Russian Foreign Ministry and circulated in the UN Security Council.
