President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine “glorifies” Adolf Hitler’s SS killing squads and vowed to “eradicate Nazism,” as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad.

The Russian leader has repeatedly invoked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War to justify his current offensive against Ukraine.

His charge that Ukraine is a fascist state that needs “de-Nazifying” has been debunked as false by independent experts.

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    9 months ago

    He is trying to genocide all Ukrainians, not just Zelenskyy.

    Why are you downplaying that?