Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a rare apology on Thursday to Israel over recent antisemitic comments from Russia’s foreign minister connecting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to Judaism, according to the Israeli prime minister.

The reported apology came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of using Nazi propaganda and antisemitic tropes to justify the invasion as Russian leaders repeatedly compare Zelensky to Hitler.

During a phone conversation between Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the Russian president apologized for remarks made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who recently dismissed Zelensky’s Jewish faith by claiming that “Hitler also had Jewish blood” — a discredited antisemitic claim.

“The Prime Minister accepted President Putin’s apology for Lavrov’s remarks and thanked him for clarifying the President’s attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” according to a news release from Bennett’s office.

The Kremlin did not include a mention of the reported apology in the Russian readout of the call ahead of the Victory Day holiday on May 9 but included a reference to the Holocaust.

“Vladimir Putin and Naftali Bennett emphasized the special significance of this date for the peoples of both countries, who carefully preserve the historical truth about the events of those years and honor the memory of all the fallen, including victims of the Holocaust,” according to the Kremlin.

In a Wednesday interview with Fox News, Zelensky was asked about Russia’s false claim that the invasion of Ukraine is a de-Nazification campaign. Zelensky said Lavrov was using tactics similar to those employed by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels during World War II.

“These are the showings of chauvinism and nationalism,” Zelensky told Fox reporter Griff Jenkins. “They are following the same concept of Goebbels and using the same methodology, and the reaction I think is to weaken the world to these phrases of Lavrov.”

Israeli officials this week had voiced anger and demanded an apology from the Russian government for claiming that Hitler, the leader of the Nazis’ Third Reich and the perpetrator of the Holocaust, was of Jewish ancestry.
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Nonsense

Putards will hate this

Especially the one above me ranting that it’s nonsense

These guys are just filled with hatred and vile

They are only angry because Putin bursted their bubble of propaganda that Hitler was a Jew

Putin is just being diplomatic here. Isreal is sending weapons to Ukraine and did trained the Neo-nazis and some of their soldiers are in Ukraine too. Hamas was in Moscow last month to talk about few things .

You don't mess with the seed of Jacob. Even US respects them.

Puuuussy....

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Israel special forces are in Ukraine to assist Ukraine.

I kept wondering if Russia doesn't appreciate Israel's neutrality so far or they are looking for what's bigger than them, Lavrov should learn to seal his mouth, not every time cho cho cho

Can we hear this apology directly from Putin, it's Israeli Prime Minister reporting this, we need evidence