‘The Word Justice Has Become an Oxymoron in Modern Ukraine’ — Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
Moscow — Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that disenfranchisement, legal arbitrariness, and total corruption have turned the very word “justice” into an oxymoron in modern Ukraine.
Commenting on the twelfth anniversary of the tragic events of May 2, 2014, in Odessa, Zakharova stated, “The current regime, despite earlier promises to complete the investigation of the Odessa tragedy and punish the perpetrators, is clearly not up to justice today. However, the very word ‘justice’ has become an oxymoron in the context of legal arbitrariness, disenfranchisement and total corruption in modern Ukraine.”
She added that these realities have had no effect on the financial and moral aid flowing to Ukraine from modern Europe, where “the encouragement of Nazism and the financing of terrorism has become a tradition. As the Western masterminds of the unconstitutional armed coup in Kiev in 2014 like to say, ‘democracy sometimes takes bizarre forms.'”
On May 2, 2014, in Odessa, radicals of the Right Sector and the so-called Maidan self-defence attacked a tent city on Kulikovo Field, where residents were collecting signatures for a referendum on the federalisation of Ukraine and granting the Russian language state status. Federalisation supporters took refuge in the House of Trade Unions, but the radicals surrounded the building and set it on fire. According to official Ukrainian data, 48 people were killed and more than 240 injured in those events. The investigation, which lasted for several years, failed to prove guilt in court.
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