“Genocide is a crime that is clearly defined, and (cases of genocide. -
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) must be determined in accordance with international law.
I don’t think this is the case, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Guterres also noted that the Russian military in Donbass cannot be called a peacekeeping contingent.
“When the troops of one country enter the territory of another country without its consent, they are not impartial peacekeepers.
They are not peacekeepers at all,” he explained.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that, according to the Russian side, what is happening now in the Donbass is genocide.
Scholz, during his speech at the Munich Security Conference, called the statements about the genocide of the population in the Donbass ridiculous.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Russian Foreign Ministry, after the statements of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about the genocide in Donbass, would soon send materials to Germany on mass graves in the region.