[The article misquotes him in his remarks about his family. That doesn’t speak well of the writer.]
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian Jews and Ukrainian Jews have been like the McCoys and the Hatfields, at least verbally. Ukrainian Jews certainly don’t think the Ukrainian government are Nazis. The Russians are big on the Nazi tag because of the Holocaust implications, but the real issue they have with Ukraine is its resistance to annexation by Russia. Ukrainian Jews certainly don’t think Ukraine is populated by genocidal anti-semites.