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\nIndia and Ukraine have come to head-on with severe verbal attacks on each other after Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defense published a derogatory post on its Twitter page insulting the Hindu goddess \u201cKali Maata\u201d.
\nFollowing the post, people from the Hindu religion and from others thronged to social media and other platforms to criticize the act by the Ukraine Ministry of Defense.
\nKanchan Gupta, a senior adviser to the Indian Ministry of Information, said, \u201cThis is an attack on the feelings of Hindus around the world\u2026 Ukraine is now mocking the goddess Kali in a way that no foreign government has ever done.\u201d
\nA netizen wrote that a few days ago, Ukraine\u2019s Deputy FM had come on a visit to India and had demanded to invite Ukraine\u2019s President to the G-20 summit being held in India. But India had refused to invite the Ukrainian President to the G-20. People feared that it might be a reaction to the refusal by India.
\nThe biggest reason Ukraine has a bad name in India is Ukrainian arrogance (and racism) itself, said another netizen.
\nA Western citizen said, \u201cUkraine\u2019s recent Hinduphobic tweet shows their misplaced priorities. While India is neutral on its stance towards the conflict, Ukraine should focus on its own citizens instead of indulging in cheap anti-India politics.\u201d
\nThe tweet was removed from the page after heavy backlash from netizens from India.
\nFirst Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Dzheppar later said on Twitter, \u201cWe regret the defense ministry depicting Hindu goddess Kali in a distorted manner. Ukraine & its people respect the unique Indian culture & highly appreciate and support it. The depiction has already been removed. Ukraine is determined to further increase cooperation in a spirit of mutual respect& strong friendship.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD India and Ukraine have come to head-on with severe verbal attacks on each other after Ukraine\u2019s Ministry of Defense published a derogatory post on its Twitter page insulting the Hindu goddess \u201cKali Maata\u201d. Following the post, people from the Hindu religion and from others thronged to social media and other platforms to criticize the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n