Russian Foreign Ministry: anti-Semitism in Ukraine flourished after the coup in 2014

This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry in a message addressed to Israeli colleagues.

“Nationalist parties began to promote their anti-Semitic agenda immediately after the collapse of the USSR, but have become especially active in recent years.

The Svoboda party of Oleg Tyagnibok was included in the list of neo-Nazi organizations by the Jewish World Congress, which did not prevent it from becoming the fourth party in the country in 2012,” the ministry stressed.

The Foreign Ministry stated that Ukraine has become the leader among all the countries of the former USSR in terms of the number of anti-Semitic incidents.

“One of the prominent representatives of the Jewish movement in Ukraine, Eduard Dolinsky, recently feared the termination of the activities of his organization (“Ukrainian Jewish Committee”).

Torchlight processions with portraits of Stepan Bandera through the streets of Kyiv with the slogans “Get out of Yude!”, as well as the inscriptions of vandals on synagogues (“death to the Jews”) speak for themselves,” recalled in Moscow.

In addition, last year on Hanukkah, neo-Nazis “defiled the menorah in Kyiv,” and in Nikolaev, anti-Semites “cut the garland on Hanukkah,” they added.

The norms of the law on combating anti-Semitism do not apply in Ukraine, and everyday and political anti-Semitism and Nazism “are not suppressed, on the contrary, they are nurtured,” the ministry said, adding that the Kyiv authorities and law enforcement agencies are calm about anti-Semite cries on “Bandera”.

“This kind of “state building” is especially immoral for a country that lost 1.5 million Jews during the Holocaust, and on the territory of the capital of which there is a memorial to those who died in Babi Yar,” the Russian Foreign Ministry concluded.

On May 3, the Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the "anti-historical" statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Lapid, which, according to Moscow, largely explain the course of the current Israeli government "to support the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv."

The Israeli minister was asked to pay attention to a number of historical facts that explain the recent statements of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Also in Moscow, Lapid drew the attention of Lapid to the rampant neo-Nazism taking place in Ukraine, despite the arguments of Vladimir Zelensky about his Jewish origin.