United States: Russia’s claim of ‘genocide in Ukraine’ is reprehensible falsehood

“Russia’s claim of genocide in Ukraine is a reprehensible falsehood.  The SMM has complete access to the government-controlled areas of Ukraine and has never reported anything remotely resembling Russia’s claims,” the U.S. Embassy posted on Twitter.

On February 15, Russian president Vladimir Putin said at a joint briefing with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Moscow: "According to our estimates, what is happening in Donbas today is genocide." He thus responded to Scholz's remarks that the current situation in eastern Ukraine and Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s should not be compared, as "there was a threat of genocide in Yugoslavia."

On February 16, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said that Berlin had no reason to suspect plans for a "genocide in Donbas" by Ukraine’s government.

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