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The four year old Nation article described a minority group in Ukraine. Anti-Semitism has always been a factor in Eastern Europe and bears watching, just as it does in the United States. This is probably why the historic emigration of Jews from Europe came mostly from Eastern European countries and not from Germany or France. The Nation article does not justify opposition to today's Ukraine government.

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Zelensky was presiding over the ongoing neo-Nazi atrocities in the Donbass (artillery shelling of civilian targets, like what the Serbs did to the Bosnians), until the Russian invasion made him stop.

Beyond that, the principal supporter behind Zelensky's rise to power was the same Ukrainian oligarch who funded the neo-Nazi Azov battalion:

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/03/it-all-comes-together-hunter-burisma.html?m=1

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