The violence began with a terrorist attack against Israel, but instead of punishing the terrorists, they take revenge (on the Palestinians) according to the principle of collective responsibility," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "How can we justify bombing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza?"
An attack in Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern Ukraine, Photo: AP
In a special consultation he convened a day after the pogrom in Makhachkala, Putin condemned the attack on the Jews, but at the same time accused Western intelligence agencies, which operate through Ukraine, of planning the attack. In keeping with the general Kremlin narrative, Putin said that "the United States and its satellites are deriving blood-soaked profits from the conflict in the Middle East." He also claimed that the Russian army is fighting evil and enslavement and that the future of the world, including that of Palestine, is decided in Ukraine."
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