“If formally, I am Ukrainian, and I have such a strange surname. The Slavs know: it is difficult to find even in Ukraine, it is from the Zaporozhye Cossacks. My father is a “Shiri” Ukrainian, and my mother is also from the Cossacks,” said the Russian diplomat.
He repeated the narratives that the authorities and Russian propaganda use to justify the invasion of Ukraine – that Russians and Ukrainians are “brotherly peoples”, but that “Nazis” seized power in Kyiv. On the fourth anniversary of the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine, Nebenzya said that it “will continue as long as necessary” so that Ukrainians “are not zombified by the Nazis.”
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Maryana Betsa, having received the floor at the Security Council, responded to a remark from the Moscow representative.
“Firstly, Mr. Nebenzya, you are not Ukrainian. Don’t pretend to be a Ukrainian. Secondly, we have never been one nation with Russia and never will be. Ukraine is a democratic, free European country, and the Russian Federation is an aggressive state that allows itself war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Thirdly, Mr. Nebenzya’s entire statement is an obvious example of manipulation, disinformation and Russian propaganda,” said the Ukrainian diplomat.
