The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia released the Israeli diplomat because of the words of the ambassador to Kyiv
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The Russian Foreign Ministry released Ronen Kraus, Israel’s temporary chargé d’affaires in Moscow. The Russian foreign policy agency cited the statements of the Israeli ambassador to Kyiv, Mikhail Brodsky, as the reason.
On June 17, a Ukrainian diplomat in a conversation with the Israeli portal Iton.tv noted that Ukrainians are looking for their heroes after the country was subjected to a brutal attack by Russia. Brodsky mentioned the names of the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Stepan Bandera and other participants of the movement – Roman Shukhevych and Andrey Melnyk.
“We, of course, do not like these heroes, but for the majority of Ukrainians, these are heroes who fought for independence,” the ambassador said, noting the difference in views of OUN leaders in Israel and Ukraine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia reported that during the conversation with Kraus, the Russian side reported the need for “an unambiguous assessment of the actions of those who, in an effort to encourage Russophobic sentiments, are inspired by the deeds of such war criminals as Bandera and Shukhevich.”
The Israeli side has not yet commented on the message of the Russian department.
On June 22, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, in response to Brodsky’s interview, wrote in her Telegram channel about the OUN’s anti-Semitic rhetoric and accused the Israeli diplomat of blasphemy.
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, Lyor Hayat, commenting on Zakharova’s statements, emphasized that no country should “lecture Israel, its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomats about how it preserves the memory of the Holocaust.”
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