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,

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)

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  • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
    503·
    1 year ago

    As a russian I can say that Putin is definitely crazy. He always was crazy a littlw due to his KGB past, you know, some tendency to overestimate impact of special servies and conspiracy. But I guess that the last drop was a covid pandemic when he sitted alone in bunker for a year in a total isolation. He totally out of mind. I do not think that one should seriously look at his speeches. Also, as a native russian speaker I watched a video interview and can proove that the translation is cirrect. He really said it…

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      I hope you guys can find a way to get a better national government soon.

      • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Thank you. I hope too. But now it is not safe to be being in Russia and trying to get better government… So, for myself I just decided to leave the country. I’m not ready to risk my safety and safety of my family trying to protest against Putin. One can say that I’m a coward, but for me it change nothing: I prefer to be a healthy free coward instead of tortured hero in prison. To be honest, my only hope is that he die soon, there are a lot of rumors about his health problem, some cancer.

    • zikk_transport2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Hey. I assume you live in Russia. How is life so far in Russia since the war started? Has it significantly changed for you? Would love to hear your story!

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
    424·
    1 year ago

    Zelenskiy was elected in 2019, during Trump’s misrule. We all know who Trump was taking orders from.

    I love how absolutely desperate that makes Putin look.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      You are clearly mistaken. The CIA actually keeps millions of clones in underground bunkers all over the world, and then tunneled them deep underground in order to smuggle them into Kyiv for the maiden protests.

  • whileloop@lemmy.world
    221·
    1 year ago

    We’ve been pointing out that Zelenskyy is Jewish since the beginning. You know, for day five-hundred-and-something of the three day special military operation, that’s a pretty good comeback. /S

  • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
    13·
    1 year ago

    Ladies, Gentlemen, and Others… Apparently you can, in fact, make this shit up.

    What a world.

  • socsa@lemmy.ml
    101·
    1 year ago

    At this point, anyone who is taking anything Russia says about this conflict seriously is very clearly not operating in good faith.

    • Podunk@lemmyfly.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If you wanna be supremely dissapointed on how long the worst of the worst can last after they commit horrible atrocities, look up pol pot. Assuming this man will pay consequences for his actions anytime in the near future is, unfortunately, very naïve.

  • t�m@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    Whatever he’s smoking he’s gotta either share or quit hitting it for a bit

  • PlatypusXray@feddit.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    He is right! Nothing is beyond them! They are monsters! They even put a lunatic on the top of the Russian government in order to destroy Russia! And it is working! Wake up, sheepliks!

  • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    ‘that sneaky […] only got his job by being […] and was put in charge by the cabal running western society’ is classic denazification rhetoric