On May 28, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Russian Federation, Thomas Reisen, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, which strongly protested the exhumation, on May 19 in Luxembourg, of the remains of Andriy Melnyk and his wife for their burial in Ukraine,” the diplomatic body announced.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the exhumation and subsequent transfer of the remains could not have taken place without the approval of the Luxembourg authorities.

“The remains of a Hitler henchman and war criminal, responsible for massacres of civilians motivated by ethnic hatred, were transferred to Ukraine,” the diplomatic office stated on its website.

It added that Russia views these actions by the Luxembourg authorities as a disregard for the historical memory of the millions of victims of World War II and complicity in the glorification of the Nazis and their collaborators.

In this regard, the ministry reiterated “the character neo-Nazi of the kyiv regime, whose existence is financed exclusively by its Western allies, including Luxembourg.”

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