PUTIN APOLOGISES FOR FOREIGN MINISTER’S HITLER REMARKS

News Desk World

Thu 05 May 2022:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologised for his foreign minister’s comments claiming that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.

Bennett said the Russian leader apologised for remarks made by minister Sergei Lavrov, who claimed Adolf Hitler may have had “Jewish blood”. The comments had sparked outrage in the Jewish state.

Bennett accepted the apologies after speaking with Putin and thanked the president for clarifying his position.

Bennett reportedly said he requested Putin to consider allowing the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, Ukraine, to be evacuated. The Israeli prime minister stated that he made the request during a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during which Putin pledged to set up a civilian evacuation channel.

On Monday Israel summoned Russia’s ambassador, with the Israeli foreign minister, Yair Lapid, calling Lavrov’s remarks “unforgivable and outrageous … as well as a terrible historical error”.

On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign ministry doubled down, accusing Lapid of “antihistorical” remarks about the Holocaust that “largely explain the course of the current Israeli government in supporting the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.

“Unfortunately, history knows tragic examples of Jewish cooperation with the Nazis,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.

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