Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has caused widespread outrage by comparing his nation's international isolation — the result of last year's unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine — to the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds his annual press conference in Moscow on January 18, 2023. Once again, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has caused widespread outrage by comparing his nation’s international isolation — the result of last year’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine — to the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust.
“Any comparison or relating current events with Hitler’s final solution plan for the extermination of the Jewish People distorts the historical truth, desecrates the memory of those who perished and the survivors and should be strongly rejected,” the foreign ministry said. “Our first reaction is, how dare he compare anything to the Holocaust—anything—let alone a war that they started?,” National Security Council spokesman Adm. John Kirby told Yahoo News at a Wednesday press briefing. “It's almost so absurd that it's not worth responding to,” Kirby said of Lavrov’s provocative musings.
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