(February 26, 2022)
Following the 2015 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel set up a „deconfliction mechanism“ with the big power to prevent them clashing inadvertently during Israeli strikes against Iranian deployments and arms transfers in the neighbouring Arab state.
„Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work,“ the Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement.
“For the first time in history, the EU is financing deliveries of weapons – we have so far allocated two billion euros to cover the needs of the Ukrainian defense forces,” von der Leyen, now president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, told The Times of Israel in an interview by email ahead of her visit to Israel, which began Monday.
ZDF heute journal: Warum ist die Beziehung zu Bundeskanzler Scholz so kompliziert?
Selenskyj: Ich glaube, es gibt eine gewisse Skepsis in der Beziehung der Führung Deutschlands der Ukraine gegenüber. Ich glaube nicht, dass diese Skepsis auf Bundeskanzler Scholz zurückzuführen ist, ich glaube nicht, dass sie neu ist. Ich glaube, wir haben wunderbare Beziehungen zwischen beiden Völkern und recht gute Beziehungen zwischen den Führungen beider Staaten.
Aber ich glaube, diese Skepsis kommt vor allem zum Ausdruck, wenn es um die künftige Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine in der EU und der Nato geht, diese Skepsis war leider auch in der Zeit vor Bundeskanzler Scholz zu spüren. Es gab diese Haltung und ich bin zuversichtlich, dass sich diese Haltung ändern wird.
(June 9, 2022)
If you ask almost every member of the Israeli coalition government whether this comment will become a reality and former Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will become prime minister again, they will tell you that it is a matter of when, not if.
“And I ask everyone who has such an opportunity to communicate with people in the occupied south…say that there will be liberation,” he continued. “Say it to Gorlovka, Donetsk, Lugansk. Tell them that the Ukrainian army will definitely come.”
“Of course, we will liberate our Crimea as well. Let every Russian official who has seized precious land in Crimea remember: this is not the land where they will have peace,” he threatened.
(04.05.2022)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky consulted in recent weeks with a pair of public relations advisers to Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in a bid to galvanize military support for his country as it defends itself from Russia’s invasion, according to a report Tuesday.
Walla news said Zelensky received advice from Srulik Einhorn, who was a senior adviser for Netanyahu’s Likud party during the last election. He also reportedly consulted with Jonatan Urich, a longtime Netanyahu aide who continues to serve as the former prime minister’s spokesman.