Aleksey Pavlov, assistant secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has said that Ukraine should be "desatanised".
Source: Ukrainska Pravda
Kremlin-aligned news outlet RIA Novosti, quoting Pavlov.
Pavlov claims that Ukraine has turned into a "totalitarian hypersect" where citizens have abandoned Orthodox values, and therefore "desatanisation" is becoming an urgent issue. Pavlov admits that the exact number of sects in Ukraine is unknown, but "the number is in the hundreds."
"Using internet-based manipulations and psychotechnology, the new government [formed after 2014 - ed.] has turned Ukraine from a state into a totalitarian hypersect. Moreover, the authorities in Kyiv were the first to turn into militant fanatics whose views are directly opposite to those of normal people. I believe that with the continuation of the special military operation, it is becoming increasingly urgent to carry out the desatanisation of Ukraine, or, as Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic [part of the Russian Federation] aptly put it, its ‘complete de-shaitanisation’." [Shaitan are evil spirits in Islam.]", Pavlov said.
Earlier, Kadyrov accused the Armed Forces of Ukraine of attacking Russian oblasts and expressed dissatisfaction with the "weak responses" of the Russian Federation. He called for Ukrainian cities to be wiped off the face of the earth.