Ukrainian negotiator blasts Russian Hitler comments

Ukrainian negotiator blasts Russian Hitler comments

Russia has been branded "the successor to Nazi ideology" by a member of the Ukrainian team who's been at peace talks between the two countries.

Qazet.az reports that Mykhaylo Podolyak was responding to controversial comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Lavrov had been quizzed by an interviewer about his claims to be "de-Nazifying" Ukraine, given that Ukraine's president is Jewish.

Lavrov said President Zelensky's ancestry did not matter. Referring to unproven historical claims, he suggested even Adolf Hitler "had Jewish blood."

In a tweet, Podolyakaccused Moscow of trying to "rewrite history" in order to "justify the mass killings of Ukrainians".