Last week, the Jerusalem-based Holocaust remembrance centre issued a statement condemning the operation as well as the alleged "propagandist discourse" regarding "completely inaccurate comparisons with Nazi ideology and actions."
"We can talk with officials from LPR and DPR [the Lugansk and Donestk people's republics] and I am sure that after this is all over, they will gladly invite Yad Vashem officials and show them mass graves," Peskov told reporters, adding that Yad Vashem is a wonderful memorial centre, "with wonderful people working there."
Last Thursday, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, responding to calls for help from the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. According to President Putin, the operation is aimed at "demilitarising and de-Nazifying" Ukraine. The decision to start the operation came following a breakdown of negotiations and continued Ukrainian artillery and mortar attacks on the Donbass republics.