Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has furiously stormed out of a crucial UN meeting after shamelessly accusing Ukraine of 'Russophobia'.
The 'attack dog' official's jaw-dropping speech also saw him accuse the nation Vladimir Putin invaded in February of 'neo-Nazism'.
Waffling Lavrov's rant came after Security Council France called a special session in New York to demand accountability for the atrocities seen over the past eight months.
His early exit was referenced by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who later accused Russia of more lies and said the world "knows what Putin is doing".
Lavrov maintained his country's innocence before deciding to hastily depart the meeting.
It came hours after it was claimed Putin has given the green light to mobilise one million civilian reservists to fight Western-backed Ukraine - not 300,000 as officially announced.
"There's an attempt today to impose on us a completely different narrative about Russian aggression as the origin of this tragedy," Lavrov said.
"'The United States and their allies with the connivance of international human rights organisations have been covering the crimes of the Kyiv regime.
"We have no doubt that Ukraine has become a completely totalitarian Nazi-like state where the norms of international humanitarian law trampled on.
"We have no illusions that today the armed forces of Russia and the militias of Lugansk and Donetsk are being opposed not only by the neo-Nazi formations of the Kiev regime but the military machine of the collective West."
The UK Foreign Secretary spoke after Lavrov stormed out of the meeting.
"Today I have listened to further instalments of Russia's catalogues of distortions, dishonesty and disinformation," he said.
"We see the mounting evidence of Russian atrocities against civilians, including indiscriminate shelling and targeted attacks on over 200 medical facilities and 40 educational institutions and horrific acts of sexual violence."
He said the Russian President - who claimed his nuclear-ready army will 'certainly use all means available to us' to defend itself - is fooling nobody.
"We know what Vladimir Putin is doing," Mr Cleverly added.
"He is planning to fabricate the outcome of those referenda, he is planning to use that to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory, and he is planning to use it as a further pretext to escalate his aggression.
"We call on all countries to reject this charade and to refuse to recognise any results."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged every UN General Assembly member to "send a clear message to Russia" that it must immediately halt its nuclear threats.
A secret seventh article in Putin's "partial mobilisation" presidential decree allows him to call up a total of one million people, a source told independent investigative media outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe.
However, the Kremlin denied the claims, with state-owned news agency RIA citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov who called the report "a lie".
It comes after Putin and his defence minister Sergei Shoigu yesterday announced 300,000 Russians would be called up to fight in Ukraine.
