Ukraine Israel relations

Ukraine optimistic on Russia peace, but not at any price, Kyiv official Iryna Mudra tells 'Post'

Iryna Mudra to 'Post': Ukraine committed to diplomacy based on international law, not Russian demands • On Israel ties: 'We want Israeli businesses to become core architects of Ukraine's future'

Then-deputy justice minister of Ukraine Iryna Mudra talks to the media in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarters, February 4, 2025
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar met with Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka.

FM Sa'ar meets Ukrainian deputy PM, pushes for designation of Hamas, IRGC as terror orgs.

Oleksii Goncharenko with Amir Ohana in the Knesset on November 11, 2025

Bridging the Black Sea and the Middle East: Ukrainian MP urges stronger cooperation with Israel

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. September 19, 2023

Ukraine received Patriot missile defense systems from Israel, Zelensky confirms


Ukraine’s Jewish president launches image campaign to attract investors

Ukraine’s Jewish President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former actor and comedian, presented Ukraine as “a place where you can still make real discoveries; a frontier where new things are happening.”

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Amid coronavirus, Ukraine ready to enhance economic ties with Israel

As part of this cooperation, Ukraine is ready to expand cooperation in the fields of agritech and water management.

A climber installs the Ukrainian national flag on a roof, marking the Day of the State Flag, on the eve of the Independence Day, in Kiev, Ukraine, August 23, 2016

Israel Embassy in Ukraine sends aid to flood victims

As an initial donation, the embassy sent thousands of water bottles to to flood victims in the Chernivitski and the Ivano-Frankivsk in the western region of Ukraine.

Israel Embassy in Ukraine donates thousands of water bottles following the floods that took place in June, 2020.

Ukrainian senior economist says Ukrainians let Jews ‘dominate’ them

Joseph Sytnik wrote about Ukrainian politicians, some of them Jewish, that they are “sinners, advancing slavery and self-destruction".

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a joint news conference after a Normandy-format summit in Paris, France December 10, 2019.

7 Israelis held in Ukrainian airport on way to light Hanukkah candles

In May, Interior Ministry representatives met with Ukrainian officials and reached an agreement that was meant to solve such issues.

Passengers wait to have their luggage checked at Boryspil airport in Ukraine

Ukranian parliament celebrates Hanukkah

The event is the first of its kind to be held since the inauguration of the new Ukrainian government, including Jewish President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Chief Rabbi of Kiev Yonatan Markovich is seen lighting Hanukkah candles with Israel's Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Leon and other guests at the Verkhovna Rada.

Yuli Edelstein awarded medal honoring 100th anniversary of Third Aliyah

Lozhkin explained that the JCU supports many of Israel's initiatives, and hopes to strengthen ties between the Jewish state and the Jewish community in Ukraine and the Diaspora.

Yuli Edelstein

Washington Watch: Ukraine’s lessons for Israel

Ukrainians feel they can relate to Israel. Russian troops and enemies are massed at the borders. Many Ukrainians we encountered were worried about Russia occupying the eastern part of their country

Benjamin Netanyahu visiting Ukraine

Netanyahu to visit Kiev next Sunday, just a month before election

Netanyahu was last PM to visit Ukraine in 1999, 2 months later he lost election

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a meeting with a delegation of 41 US House Democrats in Israel

New Jewish president of Ukraine lauds Israelis in swearing-in ceremony

“We must become Icelanders in football, Israelis in defending our native land, Japanese in technology,” he said at the swearing-in, the BBC reported.

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY