President of Ukraine Called on Israel to Recognize the Holodomor as Genocide

News 19 August 2019

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has called on Israel to recognize the 1932–1933 Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.

He said this at a joint briefing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, informs UATV.

“I called on the Israeli side to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. Our people have gone through all the tragedies of recent history: the Holodomor and the Holocaust, World War II and a totalitarian Soviet regime,” Zelenskyi said.

Recall that on August 19, 2019, Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Holodomor Victims Memorial.