Zelenskiy tells Knesset Russia envisages a ‘final solution’ for Ukraine

A mother embraces her son, who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol, on his arrival at Lviv train station in western Ukraine on Sunday. Photograph: Bernat Armangué/AP

Volodymyr Zelenskiy drew links between Vladimir Putin’s “final solution” for Ukraine and the Nazi extermination of the Jews as he challenged Israel over its failure to impose sanctions on Russia in an uncompromising address to the Knesset.

Speaking via video link, Ukraine’s president warned that indifference cost lives and that there could be no mediating between good and evil, as he challenged Israel over both the lack of sanctions and the failure to come to Ukraine’s aid with weapons.