Ukraine at OSCE: Russia launches another campaign to denigrate Ukrainians
That’s according to Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to international organizations in Vienna, Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, who spoke at the meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Thursday, December 16, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
Russia has launched a new campaign to denigrate Ukrainians as extremists, Tsymbaliuk said, adding that Ukraine’s only journalist accredited to Russia has also been targeted.
The diplomat pointed out that recent opinion polls run in Russia testify to the threatening consequences of such rhetoric as about 75% of Russians recognize that war with Ukraine was possible.
The mood of the Russian leadership becomes even clearer due to a documentary starring Russian President Vladimir Putin, aired on the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s fall, the Ukrainian envoy noted.
For Putin, the USSR’s collapse equates to that of historic Russia, said the head of Ukraine's OSCE mission.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, Russian media outlets have lately been inciting hysteria around the Ukraine issue.
The FSB security service claimed more than a hundred members of the allegedly “Ukrainian” radical community, "MKU," were arrested across Russian regions. In fact, those arrested are Russian nationals, members of various right-wing radical groups.
The SBU decried the FSB statement as "part of a coordinated psy-op that should be viewed solely through the prism of hybrid warfare."
In addition, the only Ukrainian journalist in Russia, UNIAN’s own correspondent in Moscow Roman Tsymbalyuk, is being targeted by law enforcers for what is alleged to be "inciting ethnic hatred."
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