Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage,

Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism.

In justifying its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation,” Russia accuses Kyiv’s leaders of being neo-Nazis pursuing a “genocide” of Russian-speakers - an assertion that Kyiv and Western countries dismiss as a baseless pretext for a war of acquisition.

Putin was answering a question from Russian reporter Pavel Zaubin and his comments were shown on Russian state TV.

Zelenskiy, who has said that some of his grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust, has repeatedly dismissed as false Russian accusations that he has supported neo-Nazis in Ukraine. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey Editing by Alex Richardson)

TASS source (Russian media) : https://tass.com/politics/1670265

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  • rolandtb303@lemmy.ml
    14·
    11 months ago

    i can get the reason why someone would believe the whole cover up thing, and to some point i can agree (after all it’s the first thing people go to when you mention the more concerning aspects of azov battalion, and just getting that same response over and over is quite annoying, they’re like broken records lol).

    just funny that another jew’s saying it, that’s all.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      124·
      11 months ago

      I don’t see how it’s remotely relevant to the point he is trying to make, or how it is funny. Putin’s jewishness has no bearing on it