The EU on Thursday knocked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovs claim that the Wests policy towards Russia over Ukraine looked like Nazi leader Adolf Hitlers prepared Final Solution for Europes Jews.
Latest remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov implicating The West of looking for a last service for Russia are totally misplaced, rude and trample on the memory of the 6 million Jewish individuals, and other victims, who were systematically killed in the Holocaust, the EUs diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said in a declaration.
This adds to previous antisemitic remarks of Minister Lavrov.
Borrell stated the Russian programs manipulation of the truth to validate their unlawful war of aggression against Ukraine has actually reached another undesirable and despicable low point.
Moscows leading diplomat-- whose previous talk about Hitler and Jews led to President Vladimir Putin issuing an uncommon apology on his behalf last year-- made the contrast at his annual press conference on Wednesday.
Just as Napoleon mobilized practically all of Europe against the Russian Empire, just as Hitler set in motion and captured ...
the majority of European nations and sent them against the Soviet Union, now the United States has actually organized a coalition, Lavrov said.
Western nations, he said, are by proxy through Ukraine waging war against our country.
The job is the same: the last option of the Russian concern.
Simply as Hitler wanted to lastly solve the Jewish question.
Borrell firmly insisted that there was no parallel between the criminal offenses of Nazi Germany and the international assistance for Ukraine in protecting its area and people versus an unjustified hostility.
Russia has attacked a sovereign neighboring country, targets and eliminates civilians there every day, with the stated objective to damage the country and the Ukrainian country, he said.
Holocaust denial, distortion, and trivialization protest EU law and EU worths.
The EU made the unequivocal commitment to guarantee that such atrocities never take place once again.
It is not the very first time Lavrov has actually conjured up Hitler and the Jews in his outspoken anti-Western remarks, and the 72-year-old has dealt with anti-Semitism allegations before.In May last year, Putin apologized to Israel after Lavrov claimed Hitler had Jewish blood.