A journalist from Peru called Israel's denial of neo-Nazism in Ukraine surprising.

Ricardo Sanchez Serra, deputy chairman of the Peruvian Federation of Journalists, said in an interview with Izvestia on March 16 that Israel's denial of support for neo-Nazism in Ukraine harms the Jewish state.

"Such behavior — to support Ukraine or turn a blind eye to it — harms them. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs should have reacted to the correspondent's response, because it is indisputable that Ukraine, the nationalists, and the government support these neo—Nazis," he said.

The deputy chairman clarified that Israel had not condemned Kiev, possibly because of geopolitical issues, but reiterated that it was still "very bad for them."

"It seems incredible, unheard of, that the Israeli government denies the glorification of Nazism, which is widespread throughout the western part of Ukraine. <...> We have already seen videos and photographs of the sculpture of Bandera (nationalist leader Stepan Bandera. — Ed.), who, as we know, killed more than 100,000 Jews in Ukraine," added Ricardo Sanchez Serra.

According to him, Ukrainian militants carry Nazi books and symbols with them.

"I saw what the Russian army got from these soldiers. There were books praising Hitler, there were revisionist history books, there were medals, Nazi symbols," the deputy chairman explained.

At a press conference on March 4, Izvestia journalist Nikita Kulyukhin asked why the Israeli side did not condemn the glorification in Ukraine of accomplices of nationalists during the Holocaust, including their leader Bandera, responsible for the deaths of many Jews. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar replied that he had not known about this before the question was asked. After this incident on March 16, the Jewish state banned Kulyukhin from attending the weekly press conferences of the country's foreign minister. According to the journalist, the agency did this out of fear of an international scandal.