Ukraine's Ambassador to Israel, Yevhen Korniychuk, was summoned to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday after he criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements about "close personal contact" with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in an interview with Ynet. Ynet reports this, writes UNN.
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The diplomatic incident occurred due to the ambassador's public statements regarding Israeli-Russian relations against the backdrop of the ongoing full-scale war in Ukraine.
The reason for the summons was an interview Yevhen Korniychuk gave the day before, where he expressed his dissatisfaction with Netanyahu's statements about his personal and close communication with the Russian president.
The Deputy Director-General for Eurasia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yuval Fuchs, made it clear to the ambassador that his words were completely unacceptable and violated diplomatic protocol.
The ambassador's words ignore Israel's clear position since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, expressed, among other things, during Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar's visit to Kyiv this year and Israel's vote at the UN