Putin's Jewish friends call Zelensky a disgrace to the faith.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, is viewed as a "disgrace" to his faith by other members of the religion. Putin accused Zelensky of covering for neo-Nazis and putting them on a pedestal. Former Israeli minister and Jewish Agency chief Natan Sharansky responded to Putin, saying Ukrainians should be proud of having elected a Jewish president. Putin's remarks appeared to go even further than ones made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier this year in which he conceded that Zelensky is Jewish but claimed that even Hitler had "Jewish blood."