Lavrov compared Zelensky to Hitler.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the Jews the most ardent anti-Semites. Israel said that such statements by a Russian official are outrageous, Khronika.info reports with reference to RBC-Ukraine.
Thus, Lavrov, in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset, tried to prove the need for «denazification» ; Ukraine, which has a Jewish president.
«Zelensky puts forward an argument: what kind of Nazism can they have if he is a Jew. I may be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. It means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews. «The family has its black sheep», as we say»,— Lavrov said.
In turn, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that Lavrov's words «are inexcusable, outrageous and are a gross historical mistake».
« ;Statements of Foreign Minister Lavrov — this is an outrageous and unforgivable statement, as well as a terrible historical error. Jews did not kill themselves during the Holocaust. The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse the Jews themselves of anti-Semitism», — the minister wrote on Twitter.