Russian President Vladimir Putin today described Canada’s parliament’s standing ovation in honor of a Ukrainian veteran who served in one of the Nazi units in World War II as “disgusting”. Reuters reports. According to him, this shows that Moscow was right in its decision to “remove Nazism” from Ukraine.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized last month after the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons praised a Nazi veteran in the chamber, in the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The case became part of Putin’s narrative, according to which he sent his army into Ukraine last year to “demilitarize and denazify” the country. Kiev and its Western allies say Russia’s actions amount to an unprovoked war designed to seize territory.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskywho is of Jewish origin, commented that Moscow’s claims that its administration was run by Nazis were absurd.
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