Lavrov interview, Israel: “Putin apologized”

Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized, during a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, for the sentences on Hitler’s Jewish origins uttered by the Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, in the interview granted to ‘Zona Bianca’ on Rete 4. This was reported by Bennett’s office, according to Israeli media, according to which the premier accepted the apology and thanked Putin for having clarified his positions regarding the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust. Is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Jewish? “Hitler also had Jewish origins, the greatest anti-Semites are precisely the Jews”, Lavrov said, adding: “Nazification exists” in Ukraine. Immediate reaction from Israel. The Foreign Ministry Yair Lapid immediately summoned the Russian ambassador to Israel in protest.