Dmytro Gurin is a Ukrainian MP who grew up in Mariupol, the coastal city that has suffered the most devastating bombardment by Russian artillery: many thousands of its citizens are thought to have perished, including hundreds who had been sheltering in a theatre. But on Wednesday, in his latest interview with the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Gurin went further than accusing the Russians of war crimes. He told the presenter, Nick Robinson: “I don’t see the difference between Mariupol and Auschwitz.”I prefer not to believe that the Kyiv MP truly thinks Russia’s attempt to capture a city vital to its strategic aim of controlling a land bridge from Russia to Crimea is indistinguishable from the murder of a million Jews by gassing, forced

Source: The Times April 17, 2022 15:45 UTC