Putin apologises to Israeli prime minister for Lavrov's claim Hitler had 'Jewish blood'

The Kremlin did not confirm the apology

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Russian foreign affairs minister Sergey Lavrov. Pictures: AP via PA

Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett says he has accepted an apology from Russian president Vladimir Putin over his foreign affairs minister's recent claim that Adolf Hitler had "Jewish blood".

In an interview on Italian television earlier this week, Sergey Lavrov was asked how Russia could claim to be "denazifying" Ukraine when Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish.