Resist.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Moscow of seeking to "erase" Ukraine and its history, calling on Jews "not to remain silent" after Russian strikes near Babi Yar, the site of a Nazi massacre.
“They have orders to erase our history, erase our country, erase us all,” he said in a video, urging countries around the world not to remain neutral in the face of the offensive. Russian launched a week ago.
Ukrainian president, who is himself Jewish, calls on 'world's Jews' to speak out over Russia's invasion of Ukraine amid Russian bombardment of TV tower in Kiev, adjoining the site of the Nazi massacre of Babi Yar where nearly 34,000 Jews were massacred in two days by the Nazis in 1941.
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Russian offensive: President Zelensky asks Europeans to "prove that they are with Ukraine"
“It is important that millions of Jews around the world do not remain silent,” he said, “Nazism was born in silence.
Scream that civilians are being killed.
Scream that Ukrainians are being murdered”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses his Ukrainian counterpart, despite his Jewish ancestry, of being a neo-Nazi and has thus justified his military operation in Ukraine, pointing to an alleged genocide of Russians in his neighbor.
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