In an interview on Italian television, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was asked how Russia can claim it was “de-nazifying” Ukraine when Zelensky himself was Jewish. Lavrov responded: “So what if Zelensky is Jewish?” and said this did not negate the presence of “Nazi elements in Ukraine.”
He then went on to say that Hitler also had Jewish origins and added that “some of the worst anti-Semites are Jews.”
Lavrov’s comments prompted an immediate diplomatic firestorm with the Israeli regime summoning Russian Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov to express its displeasure.
On Tuesday, Lavrov hit back at Lapid and went further.
In a statement released by the Russian foreign ministry, he attacked Lapid's statement as "anti-historical" and "explaining to a large extent why the current Israeli government supports the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev".
"Antisemitism in everyday life and in politics is not stopped and is on the contrary nurtured (in Ukraine)," said the ministry.
Moscow says that its military operation in Ukraine is to "de-Nazify" Ukraine.
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