Zelensky spoke to Bennett about Lavrov and his statements about Hitler’s alleged Jewish blood – SME

Lavrov’s remarks angered the Israeli government. KIEV, JERUSALEM. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday about “scandalous” statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood. TASR took over the message from CNN. In a regular speech on Wednesday night, Zelensky said in a regular speech Wednesday that he congratulated Bennett on Israel’s Independence Day and briefed him on developments in the besieged southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, as well as on the situation in eastern Ukraine. ” We also discussed the scandalous and absolutely inadmissible statements of the Russian Foreign Minister, who offended the whole world, “Zelenskyj said. Israel commemorates Independence Day on the fifth day of Ijar according to the Jewish calendar, which this year falls on May 5. Lavrov in an interview with Italian television on Sunday reiterated Russia’s claims that the invasion of Ukraine is part of efforts to “denacify” the country, recalls CNN. Lavrov also rejected claims that Zelensky himself is a Jew. “(Zelenskyj) argues that what Nazism can be with them when he himself (Ukrainian president) is a Jew. I may be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. It means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish nation says that the most zealous anti-Semites are usually Jews, “Lavrov said. His remarks angered the Israeli government, which immediately summoned the Russian ambassador to Israel, reports CNN.