Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov stands by 'denazification' claims, dismissing Zelenskyy's Judaism
May 01, 2022 at 23:13 PM EDT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stood by his country's claim that it invaded Ukraine in part to root out Nazism, dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Judaism as irrelevant and suggesting that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.” The remarks came during the week that Israel commemorates the Holocaust