The menorah-shaped monument was built where approximately 15,000 Jews were shot and killed during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
"You remember it and will never forget it for sure," he said."But you should hear what is coming from Moscow now. They are saying the same words now: 'final solution,' but this time it's about us," adding,"102 years after the Nazis, the order was given to begin the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has already killed thousands of people and left millions without a home.
However, those comments received pushback from some Israeli lawmakers, including Israeli Prime MinisterMeanwhile, Putin has also used World War II rhetoric when trying to justify the ongoing invasion when he baselessly accused Ukraine's government of being dominated by Nazis and asserted that his goal is to"de-Nazify" the country.
"Putin is trying to sort of recycle this anti-Nazi narrative to appeal to a very strong emotion as a way of rattling support for what he's doing." Thomas Graham, distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and cofounder of the Russia, East European, and Eurasian studies program at Yale University,
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