On June 7, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted on her Telegram account, and accused the government of Volodymyr Zelenskyy of committing self-genocide in its failure to receive the bodies of its fallen soldiers, in the exchange agreed upon at the talks between Moscow and Kiev on Monday, reported RT. As previously reported, Moscow upheld their side of the agreement, but Kiev was a no-show.
Zakharova wrote, “’There is no nation or ethnic group in the world that would refuse to bury its soldiers. But there is the Kiev regime, which professes a misanthropic ideology and is committing genocide against its own people,” and asserted that the Zelenskyy government “‘does not need its people; neither dead nor alive.’” On her Telegram channel, she also posted, “Was it Zelenskyy’s personal decision not to collect the bodies of Ukrainians, or did someone from NATO forbid it?”
Both Russian MP Dmitry Belik and former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof have suggested that Kiev’s refusal to participate in the exchange is based on the fact that the Kiev regime would have to pay out billions in compensation to the families.
