In a move that may anger Russia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly scheduled to visit Ukraine soon and host Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Jerusalem.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Hennadii Nadolenko, announced the plans for the visits in an op-ed published last week by the news site evreiskiy.kiev.ua.
Resisting American and Russian pressure, Israel under Netanyahu has remained tight-lipped and neutral on the bloody conflict that, after Ukraine’s 2013 revolution, erupted between that country and Russia. — jta