Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced “evil” Ukraine in a message commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday as he continues his nearly year-long invasion of the neighboring country.
In a statement posted on the Kremlin’s website, Putin spoke of the “dramatic moment” in World War II when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland was liberated on January 27, 1945.
“Of course, we mourn the millions of dead innocent people—Jews and people from other ethnic groups—who were shot, tortured, or died of hunger and illnesses,” Putin wrote.
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