"We warn the United States and its satellites about the counterproductiveness of their current aggressive course. We call on Washington to realize the seriousness of the moment and take steps towards military restraint, the withdrawal of US-NATO military and weapons from the territory of Ukraine, as well as the cessation of any hostile activity against our country," Gavrilov said at a plenary session of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Gavrilov added that by encouraging and sponsoring Ukrainian neo-Nazism, the "collective West" was consigning to oblivion the horrors and suffering that the Nazi ideology brought to humanity.
The diplomat also noted that "the sponsors of the anti-national regime in Kiev must be ready to restore the civilian infrastructure destroyed by the Ukrainian armed forces after 2014 from their own pockets."