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Vladimir Putin apologizes to Israel over Lavrov’s remarks about Hitler
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for remarks by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who made a comparison between Adolf Hitler and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The head of Russian diplomacy, had declared that Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”, and had made this parallel with the Ukrainian president by suggesting that even if he was Jewish he could be a Nazi.
“The prime minister accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s remarks and thanked him for clarifying his attitude regarding the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” a statement from the prime minister’s office said. Israeli minister.
Sergei Lavrov’s original commentary reacted to Israel’s support for Ukraine and said he had “paid attention to the anti-historic statements of (Israeli) Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, which largely explain the decision of the current government to support the regime. neo-Nazi from kyiv”.
“Zelensky makes this argument: how can Nazism be present (in Ukraine) if he himself is Jewish,” he said.
“I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood,” he added, in an interview with Italian media. Since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Russia has repeatedly said that it wants to “denazify” Ukraine.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called “Minister Lavrov’s remarks “scandalous, unforgivable and a horrific historical error”.
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