Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's latest desperate statements about alleged neo-Nazis in Ukraine indicate that Russia is in an unenviable position, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko said.

"Minister Lavrov's increasingly desperate mantras about neo-Nazis in Ukraine and the oppression of the Russian-speaking population to justify Russia's war against Ukraine mean only one thing: the Russian warship is sinking. His crew is trapped and there will be no happy ending for them," Nikolenko said on Twitter on Saturday.