0ur correspondent in jerusalem jon donnison has more on this. he was asked how it could be he was accusing volodymyr zelensky, the ukrainian president, of being a nazi, when he is of coursejewish. and mr lavrov replied that even adolf hitler might have had jewish blood, and he also said that sometimesjews were the greatest anti semites. obviously those comments have caused huge offence here in israel and also tojews around the world and the actions we have had here reflect that. the prime minister naftali bennett has referred to the comments as lies and saying sergei lavrov was using the holocaust as a political tool. you mentioned the foreign minister, yair lapid, he went even sayin gthe comments were unforgivable and outrageous. and then we had the chair of yad vashem, the world remembrance centre, he said they were absurd,
Zelensky is in factjewish. israel s foreign ministry has described those comments from sergei lavrov as unforgivable, outrageous and terrible historical error. that s the latest from kia. back to the studio in london. we are going to stay with that story and cross live to jerusalem stay with that story and cross live tojerusalem and get the latest stay with that story and cross live to jerusalem and get the latest from our correspondentjon tojerusalem and get the latest from our correspondentjon donnison. i wonder if you could explain exactly what happened and what was said. , ., , exactly what happened and what was said. , . , . . said. this was an interview that seruei said. this was an interview that sergei lavrov. said. this was an interview that sergei lavrov, the said. this was an interview that sergei lavrov, the russian - said. this was an interview that i sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister did on italian tv over the weekend and he was asked how it could be he was