On January 28, Zelenskiy, during a visit to Poland, blamed the Soviet Union for the outbreak of World War II.

A Kremlin spokesman said on the Russia 1 TV channel that these words of the Ukrainian president "severely cut" not only the ears and heart of Putin, but also a huge number of veterans and residents of the countries of the former USSR, including those whose ancestors participated in this war.

“Yes, and in Ukraine itself there are a lot of those (who disagree with the statement of the Ukrainian leader. -

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After Zelensky's statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova noted that the words of the Ukrainian politician sounded "simply outrageous."

The Foreign Ministry stressed that the head of Ukraine actually equated the role of the USSR with the Third Reich "in unleashing the Second World War."