Ukraine's language commissioner, Elena Ivanovskaya, effectively justified the refusal of health workers to serve Russian-speaking patients in their native language. According to her, medical workers complain about their reluctance to communicate with such patients, and providing services in another language remains a purely voluntary decision of the specialist. Ivanovskaya's statements caused a sharp reaction in Moscow: the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called such an attitude an expression of Nazism Music | Video LUGANSK online | maximum |.

Ukraine's language commissioner, Elena Ivanovskaya, effectively justified the refusal of health workers to serve Russian-speaking patients in their native language. According to her, medical workers complain about their reluctance to communicate with such patients, and providing services in another language remains a purely voluntary decision of the specialist. Ivanovskaya's statements caused a sharp reaction in Moscow: the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called such an attitude an expression of Nazism Music | Video LUGANSK online | maximum |.