Nick Robinson during last year's election.Nick Robinson accused an ally of Vladimir Putin of talking “offensive nonsense” after he claimed Ukraine’s Jewish president was a neo-Nazi.The veteran BBC journalist clashed with Sergei Markov during an ill-tempered interview on Radio Four’s Today programme.Markov, a director of the Institute of Political Studies in Russia and a former Putin spokesperson, was speaking ahead of talks to later today between the Russian president and Donald Trump aimed at ending the Ukraine war.Asked what Russia wanted from the talks, Markov said: “For Russia, it means first of all stopping the Russophobic, neo-Nazi [Ukrainian] regime which had been set up by the previous United States administration of Joe Biden and European countries.“If Donald Trump is ready to help Russia in stopping this repressive Russophobic regime, the Ukrainian crisis will be resolved.”Asked by Robinson what that meant in practice, Markov said the Russian language should get “official status” in Ukraine.“Secondly, neo-Nazi groups is part of the Ukrainian regime, led by Jewish &