Ukraine’s president on Sunday called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia
Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to carry out a"final solution" against Ukraine -- using the Nazi term for its planned genocide of 6 million Jews during World War II.
Zelenskyy, who himself is Jewish, also noted that a Russian missile slammed into Babi Yar -- the spot of a notorious Nazi massacre in 1941 that now hosts Ukraine's main Holocaust memorial. Putin has also sought to paint his enemies in Ukraine as neo-Nazis as he tries to legitimize his war in Ukraine. But historians, noting that Ukraine is a democracy led by a Jewish president, have condemned his use of such terminology as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further the Russian leader’s aims.