Putin accuses Zelensky of being elected president to cover up “glorification of the Nazis”

Vladimir Putin on Tuesday accused Western powers of electing Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jew, as president of Ukraine to cover up Nazi glorification.

“Western curators put one person at the head of modern Ukraine – an ethnic Jew, with Jewish roots, with Jewish origins. And now, in my opinion, they seem to cover up the anti-human essence, which is the basis (…) of the modern Ukrainian state,” – said the Russian president in an interview with a Russian TV channel, the words of which are quoted by Reuters.

In accordance with ReutersPutin considers the situation “extremely disgusting”, “to the extent that a Jew of Jewish nationality covers up the glorification of Nazism and covers up those who led the Holocaust in Ukraine – and this is the extermination of one and a half million people.”

To justify its invasion of Ukraine, which it calls a “special military operation,” it accuses Kyiv leaders of carrying out a neo-Nazi “genocide” of millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians, which Kiev and its Western allies say is a pretext. unreasonably, for a war of conquest.

According to ReutersHowever, this was not the first time Putin tried to link the democratically elected government of modern Ukraine to the massacre of Ukrainian Jews during World War II by the Nazi German occupiers of Soviet Ukraine and their local collaborators.

In response to the accusations of the President of Russia, adviser to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that Putin is disgusting “when he tries to justify mass crimes against citizens of another country with a monstrous lie.”