Russian foreign ministry says Israel supports ‘neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv’, escalating a diplomatic dispute. Russia’s foreign ministry has accused Israel of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, escalating a row that began when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Monday that Lavrov’s comment was an “unforgivable” falsehood that tried to minimize the horrors of the Holocaust – the slaughter of six million European Jews and other minority groups by Nazi Germany. Leaders from several Western nations denounced Lavrov, who had been asked how Russia could be pursuing its stated goal...
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