⚡️ Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia “On the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine” (May 2026)

Read the full report (PDF)

✍️ The report, alongside daily evidence in the media and online, exposes the scale of Ukraine’s human rights collapse.

First and foremost, the main reason for this degradation is the illegitimate neo-Nazi regime in power in Kiev, which is now quite openly and diligently copying its ideological inspiration – Nazi Germany.

One of many telling confirmations of this was a recent interview with former Ukrainian presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel, in which she said that Zelensky, faced with falling approval ratings, demanded that his subordinates conduct “Goebbels-like propaganda”. With such approaches on the part of the authorities, countless systematic human rights violations in every sphere of public life come as no surprise.

Yet in Ukraine, no one seems concerned. Kiev does not give a thought to the rights of its own citizens, or to the need to create at least some opportunities for them to exercise their lawful rights. Instead, it continues to profit from their blood and deaths.

Recently, the West confirmed new tranches of financial injections and weapons for the Zelensky regime. The monstrous corruption opportunities created by these enormous flows of funds, along with the preservation of power – this is what preoccupies Bankova and its residents. In today’s Ukrainian reality, this means only one thing: continued hostilities “to the last Ukrainian”.

All of this fully confirms what has been noted before: the servile readiness of Kiev’s leadership to sacrifice its country, its people, as well as the history and memory of its authentic past, is precisely why its Western handlers continue not only to turn a blind eye to the neo-Nazi ideology and crimes of the Zelensky junta, but also to justify them and even push Kiev towards ever new crimes.

History knows many such examples of the West nurturing openly racist and fascist regimes. Their unenviable fate is well known – and perhaps that is the only way they secure a place in history. This was discussed at length during the celebrations marking the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

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Glorification of Nazism

• At the state level, Ukraine is falsifying history and whitewashing Nazi criminals and fascist collaborators. Members of Ukrainian nationalist military formations from the Second World War – the OUN and UPA – as well as their leaders, have been recognised as fighters for independence. Criminal liability has been introduced for negative assessments of the activities of these structures.

Ban on the Russian language

• The Kiev regime is pursuing a consistent policy of legislatively entrenching the dominant role of the Ukrainian language and reducing opportunities for the use of other languages in public life. The Russian language – native to millions of Ukrainian citizens, not only ethnic Russians, but also Belarusians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Jews, Greeks, Hungarians and representatives of other nationalities – has been subjected to harsh repressions.

Incitement of hatred against Russians and discrimination against them

• Regular efforts have been recorded to promote intolerance towards Russian residents, the Russian language and Russian culture as a whole. Such actions not only met with no condemnation or response from the authorities, but were also carried out by Ukraine’s own leadership. Russophobic statements and calls to kill Russians were regularly heard on air.

Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

• A large-scale information campaign was launched against the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, aimed at discrediting its priests in the eyes of the flock and portraying them as “accomplices of the enemy”. Numerous cases of violent seizures of churches belonging to the canonical Church have been recorded.

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin sent a video address to the participants of the International Security Forum taking place in Moscow.

💬 Over the course of several days, 25 thematic sessions will be held – conferences, round tables, briefings and presentations – during which you will have the opportunity to comprehensively discuss key issues of regional and global security.

Today, as the world faces serious challenges, such representative world-level meetings and direct professional dialogue are particularly relevant.

As before, international terrorism, the risks of uncontrolled proliferation of nuclear weapons, extremism, drug trafficking and cybercrime pose a serious threat to all states without exception.

The modern world is interdependent and interconnected, which is why escalating tensions in individual regions have an adverse impact on the entire international community.

❗️ I want to stress that we support close cooperation in ensuring comprehensive stability on the regional and global scale, and advocate for indivisible security.

We believe that timely work on such significant and strategic issues is especially relevant right now, as the #MultipolarWorld is taking shape. Russia is actively involved in this process, including as a member of integration associations that operate on the principles of equality and respect for sovereignty, national interests, historical, cultural and civilisational identities of countries and peoples.

This Forum’s objective is to tackle security problems and assist with expanding pragmatic cooperation between countries for the protection from internal and external threats.

I am certain that the ideas and proposals put forward during the Forum will help strengthen security partnerships between our countries and contribute to achieving a strong balance of power in the world. Of course, they will also help strengthen friendships and trust between our nations.

🤝 I wish you productive work and all the best.