“The Maidan does not accept 'Black Hundred' slogans. And those who attempted to use them were quickly taken out of this space of freedom,” said the Head of the 'Batkivschina' party Political Council Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“The Maidan is a protest against the violence, evil, and total lie that is the current government. This protest has no place for hatred towards our compatriots based on their ethnic heritage, faith, or home region. We are all part of the Ukrainian nation. We're all up on the barricades, and Maidan's stage sees prayers by Orthodox Christians and Protestand Christians, Catholics and Lutherans, Muslim muftis and Jewish rabbis,” the statement reads.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that the regime “which had finally stained itself through xenophobia after blood, terror, and torture, is trying to accuse the Maidan of anti-Semitism.” He noted that “for this purpose, it spreads slander on behalf of unknown, at times simply non-existen Jewish organizations, which talk about “a panic” among Ukrainian Jewry, “requests” by Jewish residents of Kyiv to evacuate them from the capital, and so on.”

He underscored that the “dirty hinting at the alleged complicity of Maidan's Self Defense forces to the attacks on the student and teacher of the Jewish religious school is aimed at exactly that, even though responsible Jewish public figures recognized the 'handwriting' of the government provocateurs in these events.”

“We unconditionally and decisively condemn ethnic, racial, or religious hatred, and thus we condemn the abominable attempts to stoke this hatred. We are always ready to protect the Jewish worshippers at the synagogues among whom the titushki or their employers are trying to sow fear,” the head of the “Batkivschina” Political Council stresssed.

“To those in the government who can yet hear: we know your entire menu of provocations against the representatives of different peoples and different churches, about your absolutely criminal attempts to divide the country, and we are warning you: neither the perpetrators nor the organizators will be able to evade responsibility,” Yatsenyuk also underlined.