Maria Zakharova called the statement of the Ukrainian language commissioner "Nazism" The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reacted strongly to the words of Ukraine's language commissioner, Elena Ivanovskaya. The diplomat saw the position of the Ukrainian official as an expression of Nazism. Earlier, Ivanovskaya expressed the opinion that Ukrainian doctors have the right to refuse medical treatment to Russian-speaking patients if they do not speak the state language.

Maria Zakharova called the statement of the Ukrainian language commissioner "Nazism" The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reacted strongly to the words of Ukraine's language commissioner, Elena Ivanovskaya. The diplomat saw the position of the Ukrainian official as an expression of Nazism. Earlier, Ivanovskaya expressed the opinion that Ukrainian doctors have the right to refuse medical treatment to Russian-speaking patients if they do not speak the state language.