MOSCOW. Jan 28 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's statement placing the blame for starting WWII on the Soviet Union is an insult to veterans, Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee head Leonid Slutsky said.
"Zelensky's statement on the USSR's responsibility for starting WWII shows that Ukraine is still a territory governed from the outside," Slutsky told journalists on Tuesday.
"To please Kyiv's Western masters, the Ukrainian leader sided with historical lies rather than the truth," he said.
"This is shameful and sacrilegious to the memory of those who fell in fighting the Nazis. Such statements also insult the veterans who were victorious in the most horrible and bloody war, where Russians and Ukrainians fought shoulder to shoulder," Slutsky said.
"In the year marking the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, attempts to erase the feat of the Soviet soldiers from history are unacceptable. As successors of the victors, we will consistently oppose this at all levels and international forums," he said.