The Foreign Ministry announced a conversation with the charge d’affaires of Israel because of the words of the ambassador in Kyiv

On June 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry invited Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of Israel Ronen Kraus for a talk because of the statements of the Israeli ambassador to Ukraine. About it reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“The attention of the Israeli representative was drawn to the public statements of the Israeli Ambassador to Kiev, Mikhail Brodsky, in which the process of whitewashing former Nazi accomplices in Ukraine cannot be stopped and interaction with the Ukrainian authorities should not be linked to the theme of glorification of Stepan Bandera and his supporters,” the report says. .

The Foreign Ministry said during the conversation that Moscow and Tel Aviv made a lot of efforts to counteract “attempts to rewrite history and glorify the henchmen of the Nazi punishers,” including on international platforms.

The Russian side during the conversation also stated the need to continue joint efforts in this matter and unequivocally assess the actions of those who are “inspired by the deeds” of Nazi supporters. The participants in the conversation also reaffirmed their intention to further progressive development of relations between Russia and Israel.

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky earlier in an interview with the Israeli portal Iton TV said that, despite the difference in the views of Jews and Ukrainians on Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and Andriy Melnyk, Ukraine is now “in search of its identity, in search of its heroes.” “Of course, we do not like these heroes, but for most Ukrainians they are heroes who fought for independence,” the Israeli ambassador said. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova condemned this is Brodsky’s statement, recalling the Holocaust.

“Those who sponsored Hitler in the 1930s reasoned like that. By the way, mostly Anglo-Saxons. If Soviet soldiers reasoned like that, then now there would simply be no Brodsky, as well as the memory of the Holocaust, ”said Zakharova. In addition, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Holocaust must be remembered “not only because it happened then, but also so that it never happened.”