A spokeswoman for Russia’s overseas ministry on Wednesday claimed Israeli mercenaries have been combating along the far-proper Azov Regiment in Ukraine, similarly fuelling tensions with Israel after Russia advised Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”.
“Israeli mercenaries are nearly shoulder to shoulder with Azov militants in Ukraine,” Maria Zakharova instructed pro-Kremlin Sputnik radio in an interview.
Azov rose to prominence in 2014, whilst its far-proper activists took up palms to combat pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s japanese Donbas location however have because fallen below the command of Ukraine’s army.
They were combating along the Ukrainian military towards Russian troops, which on February 24 released a army marketing campaign withinside the pro-Western country.
Its participants are a part of the Ukrainian resistance withinside the port town of Mariupol, holed up withinside the Azovstal metal plant towards which Russian forces released a first-rate attack on Tuesday.
By suggesting that Israelis are combating along Azov — considered with the aid of using Russia as “fascists” and “Nazis” — Moscow is compounding tensions that commenced after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Sunday that Hitler had “Jewish blood”.
His feedback sparked outrage in Israel, which referred to as the statement “unforgivable and outrageous” and a “horrible historic error”.
Russia’s overseas ministry on Tuesday accused Israel of backing “the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv”. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is of Jewish descent.
