Sviatoslav Yurash, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament who is close to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a conversation with "Israel Hayom" accuses Putin's regime of anti-Semitic tendencies, and lays the blame on Russia for the deterioration of its relations with Israel.
Member of the Ukrainian Parliament Sviatoslav Yurash,
"This deterioration is a natural result, because Russia is responsible for many of the global threats that endanger Israel, just as they endanger Ukraine," says Yurash.
"Individuals and representatives on behalf of the Russian regime, such as the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, encourage extremism in both actions and words and seek to legitimize Russia's cooperation with Hezbollah, with the Taliban, and with the Iranian regime. That is, with those organizations and countries that openly seek the destruction of The State of Israel. Not to mention a war from hell that they continue to wage in Syria - the same hell that they have now brought to Ukraine as well."
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Referring to Russia's threats to stop the activities of the Jewish Agency in its area and to the hostile statements of official Russian spokesmen, Yurash clarifies that in his eyes "they fit in with the Russian ambition to win the support of the Arab world in the great war it has been waging on European soil since World War II."
In this context, he is not optimistic, and is certain that the trend will only worsen: "As long as the Russians continue to desperately seek some kind of international identification with them, expect many more anti-Semitic statements to be made by them."
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According to Yurash, who serves as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament, "the anti-Semitism of the Putin regime is not a new phenomenon at all."
According to him, statements of an anti-Semitic nature were heard quite a few times in the past from official Russian representatives and officials in the Russian media, and sometimes even took the form of actions.
"It is enough if you examine the effort of the Russian authorities to dismantle the autonomous Jewish district right before their invasion of Ukraine on February 24," Yorush notes.
He predicts that "as the war in Ukraine continues and Russia's isolation increases, the anti-Semitic tendencies within it will also increase. They will again feel the need to look for the scapegoat, and will find him in the form of the Jews, as has always been the case throughout Russian history."
Sviatoslav Yuras is known to have a conservative worldview, and before entering politics he served as a producer for the Fox News network in Ukraine.
He serves as the deputy chairman of the Friendship Group with Israel in the Ukrainian Parliament, and is considered a promising political meteor. However, in the months since the Russian invasion of his country, he chose to volunteer for military service at the front, and he conducted the conversation with "Israel Hayom" from the trenches in the east of the country. "Benyamin Netanyahu was certainly one of the sources My inspiration in the decision to enlist," Yorush points out.
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