“So what if Zelenskyy is Jewish? The fact does not negate the Nazi elements in Ukraine,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the time. “I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood. Some of the worst anti-Semites are Jews.”
“The people of Donbass also disagreed with this, and straight-away they organized military operations against the Nazis,” Putin himself spouted last year. “They were surrounded and shelled by guns and the Ukrainians sent airstrikes against them.”
“This is called genocide,” the Russian leader continued. “It is to save people from this suffering and genocide that we launched our military operation.”
