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Sept 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview on Tuesday, without citing evidence, that Western powers had installed Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is of Jewish heritage, as president of Ukraine to cover up the glorification of Nazism.

In justifying its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a "special military operation," Russia accuses Kyiv's leaders of being neo-Nazis pursuing a "genocide" of Russian-speakers - an assertion that Kyiv and Western countries dismiss as a baseless pretext for a war of acquisition.

Putin was answering a question from Russian reporter Pavel Zaubin and his comments were shown on Russian state TV.

Zelenskiy, who has said that some of his grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust, has repeatedly dismissed as false Russian accusations that he has supported neo-Nazis in Ukraine. (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Kevin Liffey Editing by Alex Richardson)


TASS source (Russian media) : https://tass.com/politics/1670265

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting for Elon to tweet in agreement.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Cjwii@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Big ((((nose)))) if true

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Literally no one will miss Elon, not even his kids

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

This sounds about as reasonable as Putin is trustworthy.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Insisting that a Jew only has power because "the west" gave it to him on the condition he covers up for Nazis is in itself quite anti-semetic. Nothing they won't do for a sheckel, right Vlad?

Putin and his key allies can't be special military operationed soon enough. How many billions of dollars have they spent trying to make the rest of the world as dogshit as their own country under their own rule?

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Russia's war has killed more Russian Russian-speakers than anything that Ukraine has done. Shouldn't someone invade Russia to protect Russian-speakers from Putin's meat grinder?

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Anti semitism is pretty much the only direction Putin has left to go

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Putin really does have the most sane takes on how the world works.

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