“The Ukrainian football team in its uniform annexed the territory of Ukraine to the Russian Crimea.
The explanation is as metaphysical as the desperate artistic action itself - supposedly this should give the players strength, "she wrote in Telegram.
According to her, this technique is called "tromple", in Russian - "blende", that is, "a method of image and a set of techniques that create the illusion of the impossible."
The diplomat also drew attention to the "nationalist chants" that "will delight the spectators of the European Championship in football."
“This is another attempt by the state Kiev propaganda to consolidate in the public consciousness the slogan that many in Ukraine and abroad associate with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Bandera and their crimes during the Second World War,” she said.
Zakharova recalled that the roots of the slogan “Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to heroes!"
obvious - this is "a tracing paper from the famous German National Socialist greetings."
In the message of the diplomat it is noted that "as an official greeting of Bandera supporters from the UPA" the slogan was adopted at the II Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists in April 1941 in occupied Krakow.
"During the war years, this Nazi cry was used in regular and irregular Ukrainian nationalist armed formations, most of which were loyal to the Reich, some were organizationally part of its armed forces," wrote a representative of the ministry.
Zakharova summed up that the organizers and spectators of the European Football Championship "should know this."
Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian Football Association Andriy Pavelko presented a new uniform for the Ukrainian national football team, in which the team will play at the European Championship.
On the form, in particular, there are outlines of the country with the Crimea in the composition.