Former Knesset member Svetlova: Israel must be on right side of history on Ukraine

Ben Caspit hosts this week former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova, who grew up in Russia and later made Israel her home. Noting that she still feels shock at the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Svetlova said she keeps herself busy by helping people to evacuate and by writing about what is happening. "I think this policy of Israel of sitting on both chairs, not taking sides, is not justified. It was not justified in 2014 [with the Russian annexation of Crimea], and it is not justified now, when there are many thousands of Jews, millions of Ukrainians, who are being murdered in their homes, while sitting in shelters, or while trying to evacuate," she says. 

Links:

-Germany’s Scholz behind Israel’s Bennett shuttle diplomacy on Ukraine - Al-Monitor

-Bennett's shuttle diplomacy impresses few in Israel - Al-Monitor

-Israeli PM offers rare, uncertain diplomatic channel for Putin, Zelenskyy - Al-Monitor