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Trudeau calls Russian foreign minister's Hitler comments 'ridiculous and unacceptable'

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blasting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for recent comments about the country鈥檚 goal to 鈥渄enazify鈥 Ukraine and a claim that Adolf Hitler was Jewish.

Lavrov was asked during an interview on an Italian news channel on Sunday how Russia can claim it鈥檚 getting rid of supposed Nazis in Ukraine if President Volodymyr Zelensky is himself Jewish.

鈥淪o when they say, 鈥楬ow can Nazification exist if we're Jewish?' In my opinion, Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn't mean absolutely anything. For some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest anti-Semites were Jewish,鈥 he said, speaking to the station in Russian, dubbed over by an Italian translation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to portray the invasion as a struggle against Nazis in Ukraine, relying on Russia鈥檚 history of helping to defeat Germany in the Second World War as a way to bolster support at home.

鈥淸The comments] are ridiculous and unacceptable,鈥 Trudeau said at a press conference in Ontario on Monday.

鈥淐anada and all right-thinking countries around the world and Canadians and everyone who stands against the horrors of the Holocaust and the tremendously concerning rise in hate crimes, whether it be anti-Semitism or anti-Islamophobia or anti-Black racism, we need to stand condemning ever stronger the ridiculous and unacceptable positions of Russia.鈥

Trudeau is the latest world leader to weigh in on Lavrov鈥檚 remarks.

Listen to the prime minister鈥檚 reaction at the top of this article.

With files from The Associated Press.

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