Minister compares Ukrainian regime with Nazis and neo-Nazis

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has attacked the leadership of neighboring Ukraine in extremely sharp terms.

It is not Russia fighting against the 'Ukrainian regime', he said Monday in an interview with the pro-Kremlin newspaper Komsomolskaja Pravda in Moscow. 'Against the Ukrainian regime, which has all the characteristics of Nazis and neo-Nazis, the Russian-speaking Ukrainians who live in the Donbass fight. '