By comparing Russia and Nazi Germany, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "brought the situation to the point of absurdity," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She called the parallels drawn by Zelensky between the Holocaust and the events in Ukraine “inept attempts to play on the tragedy of the Jewish people”, to psychologically influence the audience.
“He invented some insidious schemes of Moscow for the “final solution of the Ukrainian issue”, which he allowed himself to be compared with the inhuman, barbaric crimes of the Nazis against the Jewish people. <...> Without a twinge of conscience, the Ukrainian president speculated on the "intertwining histories" of Ukrainians and Jews, on the common threat of their "total annihilation," Zakharova reproached him.
She stated that during the Great Patriotic War, Ukrainians, Jews, Russians fought together to "avoid the implementation of the inhuman plans of the Third Reich and its satellites." According to Zakharova, this memory unites three nations.
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Zelensky, in his video speech in the Knesset, recalled that on the date of the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine - February 24 - in 1920, the National Socialist German Workers' Party was created in Germany. He compared Russia's actions to the Holocaust and accused its leadership of using "nationalist party terminology". According to the President of Ukraine, Ukraine and Israel face one threat - "the total destruction of the people, the state, culture and even the name."