Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has blamed the Greek government for adopting an anti-Russian stance in a statement. In her statement, she said, “Greece’s statements are a show of faith in US and NATO rules”.
The representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched an extreme attack against the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in today’s press briefing calling the Greek PM’s analogy between the Nazov fighters with the Greek freedom fighters of Messolonghi ‘strange’.

Maria Zakharova referred to the Prime Minister’s speech in the US Congress, during his visit to Washington, on May 16-17, and spoke of “another attempt by Athens to justify its deeply wrong decision to join the anti-Russian front of the West.” including the supply of weapons to Kyiv, which are used for daily strikes against peaceful civilians in Donbas.”

At the same time, she claimed that Kyriakos Mitsotakis made “a strange choice of historical analogies”, comparing the heroes of the Exodus of Messolonghi with the Nazis of the Azov battalion in Mariupol. “(It is) unbelievable that the heroes who defended Messolonghi in 1825-1826 are compared to Nazis of the Azov order,” she said.

Zakharova said that Russia could not offer an alternative narrative, as all Russian media outlets were “excluded from Greece.” She lashed out against PM Mitsotakis, saying his remarks were “a show of faith in the rules imposed by the US and NATO”.

In response to Zakharova’s statements, diplomatic sources in Athens pointed out that the statements of the representative of the Russian Foreign Minister are unfortunately a further aggravation in bilateral relations, an aggravation for which Greece bears no responsibility.