He said this during a meeting of the UN Security Council on confidence-building in international affairs.
According to him, the role of Ukraine, through the efforts of the United States and its allies, has been reduced to the function of a bargaining chip in the geopolitical confrontation with Russia.
Nebenzia noted that for this, a Russophobic neo-Nazi dictatorship was formed on the Russian borders for eight years, "proclaiming war on everything Russian" and what the countries objectively "connected"
"It came to a proxy war of NATO against Russia, which threatens the most disastrous consequences for all of humanity," TASS quoted the diplomat as saying.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States had declared a crusade against Russia.