A television chef in Russia has apologised after he compared the way he chopped fresh herbs to the slaughter of Ukrainian villagers by Bolshevik forces.
Ivan Urgant's comments on the show 'Smak' provoked an angry protest by the Ukranian Foreign Ministry and saw protesters take to the street outside the Russian embassy in Kiev.
"I chopped these greens like a red commissar did the residents of a Ukrainian village," Urgant said on the show, aired on Saturday.
"You have cleaned my blade," he then told guest Alexander Adabashyan, a screenwriter.
"I am just shaking off the villagers' remains," Adabashyan replied.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry immediately demanded an investigation into the incident.
Urgant's comments sparked official Ukrainian protests "In the modern, civilised world, such jokes are considered bad taste and disrespectful toward the millions of victims of a totalitarian regime," it said in a statement.
Urgant took to the television on Wednesday to apologise for his comments.
It followed an apology on Twitter in which he promised to give his son a Ukrainian name and cook only Ukrainian dishes on his show.
He said: "I just said a stupid thing without thinking. Believe me, I don't embrace the monstrous and chauvinistic notions that some people have seen in this stupid phrase.
"Indeed, I never imagined that this would cause an international scandal."
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