The Izvestia journalist stated the Israeli Foreign Ministry's fear of the truth about neo-Nazism in Ukraine

Izvestia journalist Nikita Kulyukhin, who was banned by the Israeli Foreign Ministry from attending press conferences of the head of the department, Gideon Saar, after a question from a correspondent about Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera, suggested in a comment to Izvestia on March 13 that the agency did this out of fear of an international scandal.

"I think that the Israeli Foreign Ministry will no longer want to give me the opportunity to ask the Foreign Minister these questions that I asked before. It seems to me that now they don't want to answer this because they are most likely afraid of an international scandal," Kulyukhin said.

The correspondent believes that the current Israeli government, which needs to fight anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism, as well as Western foundations that are trying to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, is now pursuing the wrong agenda.

"Israel sometimes did it strongly, sometimes it tried to change it many times. As it is, he doesn't want to create problems for himself politically. The same thing happened with Poland, and now with Ukraine. <...> Therefore, unfortunately, in Israel they do not want to touch on this topic, and therefore it is easier to dismiss such a journalist who asks uncomfortable questions," he added.

Kulyukhin said that, as usual, he came to a briefing by the Israeli Foreign Minister, where there were media representatives from all over the world. The only thing that distinguished him from his colleagues from other countries was that he "asked a question that confused the foreign minister."

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