Ah, the Irish. According to 23 and Me, 10,000 years ago this writer’s blood was O’Neil. So I’ll take a drought of pride in what David McCullagh did to Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yuri Filatov. Watch the interview in the tweet below.

FNC: “A news host in Ireland grilled Russia’s ambassador to Ireland during a TV interview, at one point referring to him as an ‘apologist for slaughter’ and pushing back against claims that it was ‘not [Russia’s] choice’ to start a war against Ukraine.

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RTE News’ David McCullagh spoke with Ambassador Yuriy Filatov on Friday. As the interview concluded, McCullagh asked the ambassador why Ireland should continue to allow Filatov to remain in Ireland, given this week’s events in Ukraine.”

“Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter?” McCullagh asked. “Well that’s a good question,” Filatov replied. “You might ask your government. It’s up to them. I can leave any time.”

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Earlier, the diplomatic punk said that this war has been going on in Ukraine’s Luhansk region for almost eight years, and said it was “waged by the Kyiv regime against the people of Donbas and Luhansk.” That is Hitlerian level spin.

“I’m sorry, ambassador,” McCullagh responded, “but that war was started by Russia. It was fomented by Russia. It was continued by Russia. Russia has been arming the separatists in those areas you mentioned.” “We did not,” Filatov answered.

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Ivan continued lying: “That has been started by the [Ukraine] government, which came to power in 2014 and to everybody, the only reason was that the people in the republics in the region, the thing they simply rejected – that they have not accepted – the new regime, which was all about Ukraine mutation. They wanted to keep their language, which is Russian, to speak it, to leave the room real life and just put it isn’t. They were victims of the old operation aimed to suppress them, suppressed them.”

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McCullagh hit back, accusing the Russian swine of presenting the “Russian version of events” and asked Filatov why RTE’s viewers should “believe the Russian version of events when Russia has been misleading us in recent weeks.” Bingo. Take it to them. No respite, no compromise, no surrender.