UNITED NATIONS, September 26. /TASS/. The very foundations of the United Nations are under threat when the West turns a blind eye to the rise of Ukrainian Nazism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the general debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly.

"When [Western countries] turn a blind eye to the increasingly overt manifestations of Ukrainian Nazism, the very foundations of a United Nations-centered world order are put at risk," the minister said.

"Judging by statements from their representatives, the ruling elites of many European Union countries are clearly infected with the virus of racial superiority -- they are harboring extremist, Russophobic ideas and indulging the leaders of the Ukrainian regime when they honor in Kiev notorious war criminals and Nazi collaborators whose hands are stained with the blood of Russians, Jews, Belarusians, Ukrainians and people of other nationalities," the minister said.