“I consider the biased approach of certain Bangladeshi media
towards the situation in Ukraine and Russia’s actions is a result of deliberate
efforts by those forces that have always sought to undermine mutually
beneficial cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic
of Bangladesh, which started 50 years ago,” he said in an open letter to
editors of print and electronic media, heads of radio and TV channels in
Bangladesh.
The ambassador referred to 1971 when Bangladeshis overthrew
— with the active support from India and the then USSR — the rule of
non-Bengali oppressors.
He said the Russian-speaking people of Donbas in East
Ukraine have been struggling to obtain the same rights for eight years while
suffering from ‘genocide unleashed by the Kyiv regime’.
The time is ripe for Russia to come to the rescue once
again, for the same cause, to ensure the right to speak the mother tongue and
to end language-based discrimination, said the Russian envoy.
“I hope that through my open letter, your readers will be
able to get acquainted with an alternative point of view on the developments
around Ukraine,” said the ambassador.
Against the backdrop of ‘anti-Russia campaign and blatant
Russo-phobic hysteria’ from western mainstream media, the ambassador said
certain Bangladeshi newspapers and broadcasters ‘widely echoed and spread’
those.
He said his letter to editors is an effort to explain to the
Bangladeshi readers once again the goals and tasks behind the ‘special military
operation’ of Russia in Ukraine.
According to the Russian ambassador, the goals are: to
protect Russian-speaking civilians in Ukraine subjected to genocide by the Kiev
regime for eight years; to eliminate neo-fascism; to prevent the development of
nuclear weapons in Ukraine; and to stop the deployment of NATO military bases
in Ukraine.
Tasks, according to him, are: to demilitarize and to free
Ukraine from Nazi ideology; to put an end to neo-fascism that has raised its
head in Ukraine after being defeated in the Great Patriotic War; to eliminate
military threats on the border of the Russian Federation; to disarm aggressive
entities of Ukraine, posing threat to peaceful coexistence; and to identify and
punish persons who have committed crimes against the civilian population of
Ukraine and citizens of the Russian Federation by legal procedures in the
courts of the Russian Federation.
“We do not plan to occupy Ukrainian territory. We are not at
war with the Ukrainian people. We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by
force. We have explained many times that the situation in Ukraine has evolved
in such a way that it has come to pose a direct threat to Russia’s security,”
said Ambassador Mantytskiy.
