Poroshenko apologized for the Ukrainians’ role in the Holocaust.
“We must remember the negative events in history, in which collaborators helped the Nazis with the Final Solution. When Ukraine was established [in 1991], we asked for forgiveness, and I am doing it now, in the Knesset, before the children and grandchildren of the victims of the Holocaust... I am doing it before all citizens of Israel,” he said.
He called the massacre at Babi Yar, in which the Nazis killed over 100,000 Jews, “a shared wound that has not yet healed.”
Poroshenko said he ordered an official memorial ceremony to take place next year on the 75th anniversary of the massacre, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would participate in
