The Russian President, Vladimir Putinapologized this Thursday to the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, for statements by his foreign minister, who said that Adolf Hitler he had “Jewish blood,” Bennett’s cabinet reported.
“The first Minister accepted President Putin’s apology for the comments of [Serguéi] Lavrov and thanked him for clarifying his position on the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” the Israeli statement said.
Lavrov stated last Sunday that the fact that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskybeing of Jewish origin did not prevent him from running a “neo-Nazi” regime, as Russia claims, which used that argument to invade Ukraine in February.
“I can be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood“, Lavrov said, unleashing the indignation of Israel, which from the beginning of the conflict has tried to maintain a delicate balance between kyiv and Moscow.