Amb. Michael McFaul: "There's Now Momentum on the Side of the Ukrainians"

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss Speaker Pelosi's meeting with President Zelenskyy, Dr. Jill Biden's Mother's Day trip to Romania and Slovakia, recent comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and the overall positive momentum 'on the side of the Ukrainians' that's happening right now.

Israel Summons Russia Envoy over Minister’s Hitler Comments

THE GUARDIAN: Israel condemns comments by Sergei Lavrov, who said Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’ and the ‘most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews’

The comments by Sergei Lavrov (left) were described as ‘unforgivable and outrageous’ by Yair Lapid (right). Photograph: Yuri Kochetkov/AFP/Getty Images
Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador and demanded an apology over remarks by the Kremlin foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” and that the “most rabid antisemites tend to be Jews”.

The remarks were part of Lavrov’s defence of Russia’s policy of “denazification” in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s term for a sweeping purge that Ukraine says is a pretext for “mass murder.”

In an interview with Italian TV, Lavrov was asked to address how Russia could say it needed to “denazify” the country when its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is Jewish.

“As to [Zelenskiy’s] argument of what kind of nazification can we have if I’m Jewish, if I remember correctly, and I may be wrong, Hitler also had Jewish blood,” Lavrov said during an interview with Italian television channel Mediaset. “It doesn’t mean anything at all.” » | Andrew Roth and Angela Giuffrida in Rome | Monday, May 2, 2022

Israel verlangt Entschuldigung von Lawrow nach Hitler-Vergleich: Nachdem der russische Außenminister den ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj mit Hitler verglichen hatte, fordert Israel eine Entschuldigung. Lawrow hatte gesagt, dass die eifrigsten Antisemiten Juden gewesen seien. »

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