Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage,

Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism.

In justifying its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation,” Russia accuses Kyiv’s leaders of being neo-Nazis pursuing a “genocide” of Russian-speakers - an assertion that Kyiv and Western countries dismiss as a baseless pretext for a war of acquisition.

Putin was answering a question from Russian reporter Pavel Zaubin and his comments were shown on Russian state TV.

Zelenskiy, who has said that some of his grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust, has repeatedly dismissed as false Russian accusations that he has supported neo-Nazis in Ukraine. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey Editing by Alex Richardson)

TASS source (Russian media) : https://tass.com/politics/1670265

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    Russia’s war has killed more Russian Russian-speakers than anything that Ukraine has done. Shouldn’t someone invade Russia to protect Russian-speakers from Putin’s meat grinder?

  • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.eeEnglish
    211·
    1 year ago

    Insisting that a Jew only has power because “the west” gave it to him on the condition he covers up for Nazis is in itself quite anti-semetic. Nothing they won’t do for a sheckel, right Vlad?

    Putin and his key allies can’t be special military operationed soon enough. How many billions of dollars have they spent trying to make the rest of the world as dogshit as their own country under their own rule?