Jerusalem (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized for comments his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made about Hitler and Jews earlier this week in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, according to a statement from Bennett’s office. Thursday’s statement read: “The prime minister accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s comments and thanked him for clarifying the president’s attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust.” A bitter war of words erupted between the two countries after Lavrov tried to justify Moscow’s stated goal of “denazifying” Ukraine, an unsubstantiated description of the country, which...
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