An Italian journalist from the Mediaset television company, in an interview with Lavrov, drew attention to the fact that “Zelensky is a Jew”, and “Nazis, Azov are few of them.”
According to the host, "Zelensky refutes" Russia's position regarding what is happening in Ukraine.
“I don’t care what President Zelensky denies or doesn’t refute.
He has "seven Fridays in the week," as we say.
During one day, it can change position several times.
I heard him say that we will not even discuss demilitarization and denazification in the negotiations.
Firstly, they are sabotaging these negotiations, just like the eight years of the Minsk agreements,” Lavrov replied.
The minister also reacted to Zelenskiy's argument that "he is a Jew", although
“It means absolutely nothing.
The wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews.
“The family has its black sheep,” as we say,” the Foreign Minister said.
In January 2020, Ambassadors of Poland and Israel Bartosz Cichocki and Yoel Lion expressed their concern about the situation in Ukraine related to the honoring of Stepan Bandera and other Nazi collaborators.
In response to this, the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Kateryna Zelenko, said that "every nation and every state independently determines and honors its heroes."
As a result, on January 13, the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement stating that "the persons responsible for the murders of Jews during the Holocaust and pogroms, as well as the anti-Semitic ideologists of the Ukrainian national movement, have recently become the object of public glorification in Ukraine."