"It will destroy all interstate relations between our countries," Medvedev, who is now Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said. "I'm not talking about the fact that the Bandera supporters were Nazis, and remained so. Just look at the symbolism of their modern henchmen. If they are supplied with weapons, then it is time for Israel to declare Bandera and Shukhevych their heroes."
Medvedev was referring to Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical, terrorist wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He pledged to work with Germany during World War II, but as this was seen as an attempted coup, he was arrested.
He was awarded the Hero of Ukraine award posthumously in 2010 by then-Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, an action which was subsequently condemned by foreign nations and Jewish groups worldwide.
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych, worked for Bandera in the OUN-B, murdering and expelling the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.
Russia's top leaders have spent a large portion of their international campaigning during the Russia-Ukraine war comparing between Ukraine and the Nazis. Russia's Foreign Ministry said just this past May that Israel supports neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
This occurred just one day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins.
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