“People who collaborated with Nazism, with the Nazis, and who exterminated civilians.
Today, such people in Ukraine have been elevated to the rank of national heroes, their portraits are walked around large cities like icons, they are saluted, they are symbols of today’s Ukrainian state.
This is what we are fighting against,” Putin said during a meeting with participants of the World Youth Festival.
Earlier it became known that in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug they began to demolish memorial plaques to city residents who fought against the Nazis.
We are talking about the heroes of the Soviet Union Ilya Tkachenko, Pyotr Prikhodko, the creator of the Airborne Forces Vasily Margelov and soldier Vladimir Skripchenko.