Putin has never claimed that the Jews in Ukraine are Nazis. He is claiming that the Neo-Nazi units of the Ukrainian military operating in the south of the coun

Putin has never claimed that the Jews in Ukraine are Nazis. He is claiming that the Neo-Nazi units of the Ukrainian military operating in the south of the country, who harbor Nazi tattoos and whose flags represent the Black Sun and the rune used as the symbol of the "Das Reich" SS division, are probably Nazis. The Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant mentioned, in his manifesto, that he had visited those guys. Last year a UN resolution was motioned to condemn Nazism and Neo-Nazism. Only two countries voted against: the United States and Ukraine. This doesn't justify any war of aggression, of course, but you cannot pretend that there is no Nazi problem in Ukraine either. Of course he is not claiming that the Jews in the government in Kiev are Nazis, because that would be absurd, but it's pretty clear that they are tolerating Nazis in the military for very cynical reasons (they're actually very effective fighters and are employed to fight the separatists in the Donbass region).