🎙 Remarks by Russia’s Ambassador to Australia Mikhail Petrakov on the Australian media’s coverage of the Ukraine conflict (14 October 2026)
 
💬 We have been witnessing what looks like a well-organised campaign in the Australian media against the Russia-US arrangement on diesel sales. The media and various experts portray the neo-Nazi Kiev regime as a “dove of peace”, seeking de-escalation and a diplomatic settlement – and hence, in the Western logic, in need of more weapons and military assistance. <…>
 
☝️ For when we call it neo-Nazi, it is not a figure of speech. It was this particular type of extremists who came to power in Kiev following the violent coup d’état in 2014. The regime started spreading Nazi ideology, destroying everything Russian, killing thousands of Russians in Donbass, in the war which lasted eight years, until the special military operation began.
 
Today, the Kiev regime is conducting a campaign to repatriate from abroad and rebury the remains of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators such as Bandera, Shukhevych and other notorious Nazi henchmen. <…> Their remains are to be placed in a so-called “Ukrainian national pantheon” in the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, a site sacred to all Orthodox Christians (throwing out all monks living there).
 
❓Curiously enough, when someone says they admire Hitler, they are called Nazis; but when the entire Ukrainian state glorifies Nazi collaborators as national heroes, it is called in the West a “manifestation of democracy”. <…>
 
On 25 June, the regime announced that it would “bring Russia to its knees” and began attacking our civilian facilities – oil refineries, marketplace warehouses and others. <…> This serves no conceivable military purpose but fits perfectly into the logic of barbaric brutality and the campaign of terror unleashed and pursued by Zelensky.
 
On 20 September – the day Russia was holding parliamentary elections – the regime launched massive drone and missile attacks against Moscow and other cities, targeting polling stations and electoral commissions, killing some of their members. This is the way the Kiev Nazis fight for democracy.
 
<…> When we talk about Kiev’s lies, the case of faking events in the town of Bucha comes to mind. This is the place from which a BBC film crew streamed a story in April 2022, showing dozens of dead bodies lying on the sidewalks. The thing is, it was done three days after Russian troops withdrew from the town, and its mayor confirmed this in the video message (without mentioning the bodies). <…> That story was used to manipulate international public opinion and fuel yet another wave of anti-Russian hysteria in the West.
 
📑 We investigated it thoroughly. The results are reflected in the report “Heirs of Goebbels: Falsification of the Events in Bucha and Bloody Staged Performances of the Kiev Regime” published by the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis. The title of the report speaks for itself. The truth is that during the time that the town was under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent action. But who in the West cares about truth?
 
⁉️ Will the Australian media and experts have enough decency to be objective and present the full picture, including the facts about the true nature of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime Russia is fighting and the atrocities it has committed against Russia and its citizens? There is plenty of information available. It does not take much to be honest.

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