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Russia Today
11-08-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Ukrainian court secretary posts Nazi flag photo
A court worker in Kiev has been caught sharing a photo of herself posing with a Nazi German flag, according to Ukrainian media. Russia has for years sounded the alarm over the resurgence of Nazi ideology in Ukraine, accusing the West of deliberately ignoring far-right tendencies in the country. Moscow has named the 'denazification' of its neighor as among its key goals in the conflict with Ukraine. Ukrainian outlet Telegraf and several other media shared photos on Sunday which they claimed came from the Instagram page of Anastasia Mirzak, secretary of the Svyatoshinsky Court in the Ukrainian capital. Her post could not be immediately verified. In one photo, apparently taken during outdoor recreation with friends, Mirzak was captured holding the Reichskriegsflagge, a military flag used by the Third Reich during the Second World War, which features a swastika. Another photo featured Mirzak posing with a group of bare-chested men, one of whom had a tattoo of the Wolfsangel, a symbol adopted by several Nazi German units. According to reports, Mirzak deleted the photos within ten minutes of their publication, although they were up long enough for the media to spot them. The Strana news outlet also said Mirzak later shared a screenshot of a news article about her posing with a Nazi flag in her stories. Telegraf reported on Monday that police have launched criminal proceedings against the court worker over the display of illegal symbols. Legal expert Radislav Kravtz told the outlet that Mirzak could be dismissed from her post and faces a prison sentence if found guilty of deliberate propaganda. Nazi symbols have been banned in Ukraine since 2015. Despite this, the authorities have erected monuments and named streets in honor of Ukrainian nationalist leaders who collaborated with Adolf Hitler's forces during the Second World War. Right-wing groups also frequently stage torch-lit rallies in Kiev and other cities. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated that by arming and funding Ukraine, 'Western Europe has once again found itself under a Nazi flag by committing to a completely misguided, disastrous venture of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.'
Russia Today
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Trump envoy repeating Russian ‘nonsense'
US President Donald Trump's key negotiator, Steve Witkoff, has been spreading 'nonsense' about Ukraine's territories, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said. Although Witkoff is Trump's Middle East envoy, he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin three times this year in an effort to help broker a ceasefire between Ukraine and Moscow. The diplomat mentioned that he had discussed Russian territorial demands, which angered Zelensky. 'I believe Mr. Witkoff has adopted the strategy of the Russian side. I think this is very dangerous, as he is – wittingly or unwittingly – spreading Russian narratives,' Zelensky said on Thursday. He added that Witkoff had 'no mandate' to discuss potential territorial changes. 'That's why I don't really understand what he's saying. We've heard this before – this is Mr. Putin's nonsense. I didn't expect that he would have certain people in civilized countries repeating these narratives. That's why I don't take this seriously,' Zelensky said, according to the news website Telegraf. Read more Vance blasts Zelensky for 'absurd' claim Zelensky reiterated that Kiev will 'never recognize any temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory as Russian.' Witkoff spoke with Putin for more than four hours in St. Petersburg on April 11. The diplomat told reporters after the meeting that a potential peace deal hinged on 'these so-called five territories.' 'It's a complicated situation rooted in some real problematic things happening between the two countries,' Witkoff told Fox News. He remained optimistic that the Trump administration would broker a permanent ceasefire. In 2014, Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine and become part of Russia following a Western-backed coup in Kiev. The Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye, did the same in September 2022. Russia demands that Ukraine pull its troops from the parts of these regions it still controls and definitively renounce its territorial claims. Moscow also insists that Ukraine must drop its plans to join NATO and become a permanently neutral state. Last month, the US brokered a 30-day moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure. However, both sides have accused each other of violating the accord. Kiev has broken the energy truce more than 80 times since it was announced on March 18, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
