Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday apologised for his foreign minister Sergey Lavrov's comment on Adolf Hitler having Jewish blood, a claim that had sparked outrage across the world. The Russian president apologised personally to Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the latter's office said in a statement after the two leaders spoke over the telephone on Thursday. The Israeli PM, for his part, accepted Putin's apology and thanked him for clarifying his attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust, Bennett's office added. Also read |Belarus admits Russia's war 'drags on', but doing 'everything' to stop it...