Russia accuses Israel of “supporting the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv”

Russia accused on Tuesday Israel of “supporting the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv”, increasing the controversy sparked by the statement by the head of Russian diplomacy that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood”.

“We have paid attention to the anti-historical statements of (Israeli) Foreign Minister Yaïr Lapid, which largely explain the current government’s decision to support the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv,” Russian diplomacy assured in a statement.

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“History knows, unfortunately, tragic examples of cooperation between Jews and Nazis”, added the text.

Lapid described on Monday as “scandalous, inexcusable and a horrible historical mistake” the comments made last Sunday by his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov noting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argues that there can be no Nazism in Ukraine because he himself is Jewish.

“I can be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood”, Lavrov added in that comment before an Italian television channel.

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This Tuesday, Russian diplomacy repeated these arguments, saying that “the Jewish origin of the president (Zelensky) is no guarantee of protection against rampant neo-Nazism in the country.”

Russia has reiterated on several occasions that it wants to “demilitarize” and “denazify” Ukraine, a former Soviet republic governed by a pro-Western Executive, thus justifying its offensive launched on February 24 against that country.

The Russian government also accuses Israel of “ignoring the epidemic of destruction and desecration of monuments to the world’s true righteous: the Red Army soldiers who stopped the Holocaust and saved the Jewish world.”

Source: Elcomercio

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