In the Israeli parliament (Knesset), a diplomatic incident occurred. The Detail publication reports that the Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov left the rostrum for guests during a meeting dedicated to the Victory Day over Nazism.
The ambassador did not like the statements of some deputies of the Knesset, who called the crime a military invasion of Russia to Ukraine and called for the end of the war as soon as possible.
The 12th Channel of the Hospital Television, citing two sources in the Knesset, said that the Russian ambassador leaving aloud condemned the speeches of the deputies and quickly left the Knesset accompanied by his guard.
One of the deputies who angered Viktorov was a member of the party “Our House – Israel” Evgeny Owl, a native of Ukraine. “The war in Ukraine is a crime,” he said. “It is impossible to look at what is happening without pain. It is especially painful for me because those who defeated the Nazi enemy are fighting each other today. War is a slap in the generation of our grandparents who fought With the Nazis “.
Lawyer Gilah Kariv, Chairman of the Legislative Commission of the Knesset (Party “Avoda”) said: “Unfortunately, this year it is impossible to celebrate Victory Day without expressing decisively against the military activity of Russia in the sovereign territory of Ukraine, an operation that takes away the lives of many thousands of thousands people. In her course, to our horror, the acts that are crimes against humanity were revealed. “
And the deputy Julius Edelstein (“Likud”) said: “Today we are witnessing how one country cynically uses our general victory so that now, in the 21st century, in 2022 to justify the murders of nothing guindless citizens, indescribable horrors, executions of bound people, rape, destruction of houses, shelling of schools and much more “
After that, the Russian ambassador left the Knesset, accompanied only by security.