It should start with moscow: Foreign Ministry responds to Lavrov's statement about "denazification" of Ukraine

The aggressor country russia has proposed to Ukraine to enshrine the so-called "denazification" and "demilitarization" in the peace treaty. In Kyiv, moscow was called upon to start the "denazification" with itself.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhii Tykhyi, has stated this.

"The real "denazification" should start with Moscow, given its attitude towards other ethnic groups - Azerbaijanis and the rest of the population of the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and others," Tykhyi wrote on X (Twitter).

Tykhyi called the rhetoric of russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov belligerent. According to him, it demonstrates that moscow is rejecting peace efforts in every possible way and resorting to the ultimatums that it announced at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman added that Ukraine is calling on foreign partners to tighten sanctions against russia so that the "denazifiers" come down to earth.

Earlier today, July 7, the Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet published an interview with russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

In the interview, Lavrov said that Ukraine should abandon legal claims against russia, lift sanctions, and return frozen russian assets.

He also called on Kyiv to enshrine in the peace treaty the so-called "denazification" and "demilitarization" - terms that the kremlin uses for propaganda and ideological purposes, justifying the war against Ukraine.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on June 2, the second round of talks between Ukraine and russia took place in Istanbul, Turkiye. Moscow rejected the proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, handing over its so-called "memorandum".

After the negotiations, the russians published the text of the "memorandum", which contains numerous demands on Ukraine, the fulfillment of which allegedly could lead to the end of the war.

As a reminder, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated that the russian "memorandum" is not a peace proposal, but a demand for complete surrender.