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Russia's FM: â€œUS threats regarding the situation in Ukraine are unacceptableâ€

03 March 2014 16:45 (UTC +04:00)

The foreign ministry accused Washington and its allies of turning a blind eye to the excesses of what it called militant, Russophobic and anti-Semitic forces operating on Kiev’s central Independence Square which pushed for the ouster of Ukraine’s embattled President Viktor Yanukovych last month.

Moscow further accused European powers of standing idly by while the “newly born Kiev regime” trampled on the EU mediated agreement of February 21, in which Yanukovich reached a deal with the opposition to settle the crisis. The ministry noted the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland had signed off on the document which was thrown out the window when opposition forces seized power the next day. In the process, the West has effectively allied itself with neo-Nazis who are smashing Orthodox churches and synagogues while “declaring war on the Russian language.”