Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The striking picture shows the bearded man in an undisclosed location in a Ukrainian military uniform with the weapon slung downwards in his right hand. Behind his left shoulder flutters the Ukrainian flag.
"Shalom Kyiv!" tweeted the Ukraine Information Army, next to the image which as of Friday afternoon had been liked more than 28,000 times and retweeted more than 4,000 times.
Time journalist Simon Schuster also shared the image with the message, "de-Nazify that."
In an address to Russian citizens before he announced the invasion, Putin claimed on February 24, that the government in Kyiv had been seized by "extreme nationalists and neo-Nazis" and that he had sent in forces to ensure the "denazification" of Ukraine.
Along with many world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, has derided Putin's comments.
"How can I be a Nazi?" Zelensky said in a televised address before Putin launched the war. "Explain it to my grandfather, who went through the entire war in the infantry of the Soviet army, and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine."
Zelensky has said that three of his grandfather's brothers died in the Holocaust.
"Shalom Kyiv!" tweeted the Ukraine Information Army, next to the image which as of Friday afternoon had been liked more than 28,000 times and retweeted more than 4,000 times.
Time journalist Simon Schuster also shared the image with the message, "de-Nazify that."
In an address to Russian citizens before he announced the invasion, Putin claimed on February 24, that the government in Kyiv had been seized by "extreme nationalists and neo-Nazis" and that he had sent in forces to ensure the "denazification" of Ukraine.
Along with many world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, has derided Putin's comments.
"How can I be a Nazi?" Zelensky said in a televised address before Putin launched the war. "Explain it to my grandfather, who went through the entire war in the infantry of the Soviet army, and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine."
Zelensky has said that three of his grandfather's brothers died in the Holocaust.