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Russian envoy to Israel claims Russia not seeking to conquer Ukraine, rails at ‘fake news’
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Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, November 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
The Russian ambassador to Israel claims his country is not seeking to conquer Ukraine and decries “fake news” about Russia’s invasion of its western neighbor.
“We are only acting against those who took Ukraine hostage,” Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov says at a press briefing.
He rails against media coverage that he says is trying to portray Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin as “monstrous,” particularly regarding a deadly strike in Kyiv near the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial.
The strike did not appear to cause any direct damage to the memorial itself, though at least one missile struck a crop of buildings in a Jewish cemetery located in the Babyn Yar complex.
“Ukraine claimed we bombed the Babyn Yar memorial. This is fake news,” Viktorov says.
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