The US State Department as well as Israeli and Ukrainian leaders have denounced Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comparison of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Hitler as inaccurate and insulting. “These certainly are provocative statements. We think they are deeply irresponsible,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in Washington. “They have at every turn sought to deflect responsibility for their actions by attempting to shift blame from where it resides – and that, of course, is with the Kremlin – to other parties,” Price added. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba…