Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov stands by 'denazification' claims, dismissing Zelenskyy's Judaism
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stood by his country's claim that it invaded Ukraine in part to root out Nazism, dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Judaism as irrelevant and suggesting that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.” The remarks came during the week that Israel commemorates the Holocaust
"So what if Zelensky is Jewish," Lavrov said, The Times of Israel reported. "The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine. I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood."
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