{"id":1410683,"date":"2022-03-30T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410683"},"modified":"2022-03-30T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:00:35","slug":"russia-ukrainian-nazis-using-synagogue-for-weapons-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-ukrainian-nazis-using-synagogue-for-weapons-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Ukrainian &#039;Nazis&#039; Using Synagogue for Weapons Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-ukrainian-nazis-using-synagogue-for-weapons-storage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1410683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Russian Defense Ministry accused President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday of using a Ukrainian synagogue \u201cas gathering and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to participate in hostilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ministry spokesman\u00a0Major General Igor Konashenkov claimed that a Jewish whistleblower in Uman, Ukraine, had sent Russian officials \u201cevidence\u201d that synagogue spaces were being used to hide weapons and that Ukrainian forces were falsely labeling transport units as school buses to avoid attack. The Russian government published photos allegedly confirming the claims.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February with the goal of \u201cde-Nazifying\u201d the country. Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov referred to Zelensky, Ukraine\u2019s first Jewish president, as a \u201cneo-Nazi\u201d in an interview with ABC News in March. The Russian government has offered no evidence that Zelensky has expressed any sympathies for Nazism and Zelensky has enthusiastically rejected the label.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we present evidence received from a member of the Uman Jewish community of the use by the [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky regime for these purposes of the building of the new city synagogue, located at 1 Shosseiny Lane,\u201d Konashenkov, the Defense Ministry spokesman, said on Wednesday, according to the Russian news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1429519\">Tass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian government considers Zelensky\u2019s \u201cregime\u201d illegitimate because pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych resigned amid protests in 2014, an event Russia claims was an American \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/6\/22\/russias-putin-accuses-us-of-orchestrating-2014-coup-in-ukraine\">coup<\/a>.\u201d Zelensky defeated Yanukovych\u2019s successor, Petro Poroshenko, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/country\/ukraine\/freedom-world\/2020\">free<\/a> election in 2019 where opponents branded him a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/04\/01\/ukraines-tv-president-is-dangerously-pro-russian\/\">pro-Russian<\/a>\u201d candidate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe object of the Jewish cult in Uman is deliberately used by the Kiev nationalist regime for military purposes in order to provoke a conflict and political pressure of Jewish religious organizations on Russia in case of fire on it,\u201d Konashenkov claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry published photos allegedly showing the violations on the day after Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/20\/invoking-holocaust-in-speech-to-israeli-lawmakers-zelensky-calls-to-prevent-russian-final-solution\/\">addressed<\/a> the Knesset, the Israeli legislature. In that speech, Zelensky compared the Russian war in his country to the Holocaust and accused Russia of \u201cusing the terminology of the Nazi party,\u201d claiming the war to be Russia\u2019s \u201cfinal solution\u201d to Ukraine. Putin similarly accused Zelensky\u2019s government of \u201cgenocide\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/18\/vladimir-putin-accuses-ukraine-genocide-packed-stadium-rally\/\">speech<\/a> to a packed stadium to celebrate the colonization of Crimea, Ukraine, this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757\ufe0fRussian Defence Ministry: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kiev?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kiev<\/a> regime uses places of worship (including synagogues) and any other places of public worship as collection and transfer points for weapons and Nazi militants to take part in hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mod_russia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mod_russia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l3IFCvpMWC\">https:\/\/t.co\/l3IFCvpMWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I7IomyOi71\">pic.twitter.com\/I7IomyOi71<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MFA Russia \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@mfa_russia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1509088228112232451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No independent verification of the Russian claims has occurred at press time. Both Russia and Ukraine have made a long list of allegations of war crimes and other human rights abuses in the war, many of them unverified, since the latest stage of the war began. Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/02\/23\/putin-special-military-operation-demilitarization-denazification-ukraine\/\">announced<\/a> that the 2014 invasion \u2013 which resulted in Russia colonizing Ukraine\u2019s Crimean peninsula, which it occupies to this day \u2013 would expand into a \u201cspecial military operation for de-militarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine.\u201d Putin also accused Zelensky\u2019s government of \u201cgenocide\u201d then, arguing that the war in eastern Donbas, Ukraine, that began in 2014 was an attempt by the Ukrainian government to erase ethnic Russians from the region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRussia cannot feel safe, develop, and exist with a constant threat emanating from the territory of modern Ukraine,\u201d Putin said.<br \/>While Russia has not been fully explicit in what it would consider a victory in Ukraine other than \u201cde-Nazification,\u201d Russian officials have listed \u201cterms of surrender\u201d to Zelensky that include \u201ca guarantee of neutral status and the promise of no weapons on its territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his preparedness to engage in discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart, with a focus on obtaining\u00a0a guarantee of neutral status and the promise of no weapons on its territory,\u201d Russian outlet RT\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/550466-putin-ukraine-opeartion-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0in late February. \u201cThese are terms that, according to Peskov, would enable the achievement of the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, and eliminate what Russia currently views as a threat to the security of its state and people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has referred to Zelensky as a \u201cneo-Nazi,\u201d suggesting that his removal from power is also a Russian military goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the Nazis and neo-Nazis manipulate,\u201d Lavrov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/03\/russian-fm-sergey-lavrov-ukraines-zelensky-a-neo-nazi-president\/\">told<\/a> ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos when asked directly if he believed Zelensky is a Nazi. \u201cOtherwise, it is hard to account for how President Zelensky can preside \u2026 over a society where neo-Nazis make strife. They make marches and torch processions, and for those torch processions, President Zelensky allocates his personal guards from his company, and they train constantly, studying acts of sabotage and warfare in urban areas. And that is all happening under President Zelensky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky has expressed personal offense at being accused of Nazism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey tell you that we\u2019re Nazis. But how can a people that lost eight million lives to defeat the Nazis support Nazism? How can I be a Nazi?\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/how-can-i-be-a-nazi-zelenskyys-direct-appeal-to-russians-before-ukraine-attack\/\">said<\/a> in an address directed to the Russian people after Putin announced his \u201cspecial operation.\u201d \u201cSay it to my grandfather, who fought in World War II as a Soviet infantryman and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"lj tf tg th ti tj\"><strong><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648662566630000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2DdbYOz8hTWTeldObpB9Rg\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1648662566630000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3WJ5ie1hNk7atppLetLA2K\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Defense Ministry accused President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday of using a Ukrainian synagogue \u201cas gathering and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to participate in hostilities.\u201d Ministry spokesman\u00a0Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}