# The Prime Minister

By [Jojo9](https://paragraph.com/@kingkingking) · 2022-05-06

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had apologized for [comments](https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-05-02-22/h_47108b656f24699854d3046e87800c15) that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made earlier this week about Hitler and Jews – comments which led to a furious war of words between Russia and Israel.

“The Prime Minister accepted President Putin's apology for Lavrov's remarks and thanked him for clarifying the President's attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” Bennett’s office said in an official statement.

Putin’s office earlier issued its own readout of the call which made no mention of an apology or of Lavrov’s comments, which included the baseless claim that Adolf Hitler had Jewish ancestors. 

According to the Kremlin, Putin and Bennet also discussed the situation in Ukraine, including the evacuation of civilians from the territory of the Azovstal plant. Putin said that the Russian military was ready to ensure the safe exit of civilians from the Azovstal, according to the Kremlin. He stressed that Kyiv should order the “militants to lay down their arms.”

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*Originally published on [Jojo9](https://paragraph.com/@kingkingking/the-prime-minister)*