"His mistake is not that he doesn't believe, he thinks differently. Everyone is free in his views... But you can't laugh at the grief of people who lose their loved ones from year to year, laugh at people who begged, including the West, to help them resolve this difficult situation, "RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
According to the diplomat, Scholz will go down in history as a man who laughed at people's grief.
Zakharova noted that in order to restore Russia's trust in the West, it is necessary to stop "inflating" the Ukrainian crisis.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that, according to the Russian side, what is happening now in the Donbass is genocide.
Scholz, during a 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 the Donbass, will soon send Germany materials about mass graves in the region.