The UN opposes the Nazis and Nazi symbols, said the official representative of the world organization, Stephane Dujarric. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that the captured militants of the national battalions in Ukraine wear the symbols of the Nazi battalions of the Waffen-SS on their clothes and on their bodies.

The Kremlin called it terrible that the German authorities are arming and supporting a regime in Ukraine that "allows Nazis to walk the streets with Nazi symbols and organize torchlight processions"