“The concern of Western colleagues about Ukraine and Ukrainians is very opportunistic and selfish,” TASS quotes Polyansky.
According to him, the West needs Ukrainians "just as cannon fodder in a proxy war with Russia to the last Ukrainian."
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during the collegium of the military department announced the intention of the West to provoke Kyiv "to fight to the last Ukrainian."
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said that the Russian Armed Forces are offering Ukrainian nationalists and mercenaries at Azovstal to lay down their arms from 12:00 Moscow time on April 19.