{"id":11578,"date":"2022-09-25T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2022-09-25T17:06:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T15:06:45","slug":"ukraine-president-zelenskyy-says-he-is-shocked-by-israels-lack-of-support-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/ukraine-president-zelenskyy-says-he-is-shocked-by-israels-lack-of-support-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine President Zelenskyy says he is \u2018shocked\u2019 by Israel\u2019s lack of support for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy complained about Israel\u2019s lack of support for Ukraine\u2019s war efforts. \u201cIsrael gave us nothing. Nothing, zero,\u201d Zelenskyy said<\/strong><\/strong> in an interview with a European news channel<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent interview, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said that \u201cI don\u2019t know what happened to Israel. I\u2019m honestly, frankly, I am in shock because I don\u2019t understand why they couldn\u2019t give us air defense.\u201d He further stressed that \u201cI am stating the facts. My conversations with the Israeli leadership have done nothing to help Ukraine.\u201d Zelenskyy later toned down his comments by adding, “I understand, they have a difficult situation, regarding the situation with Syria and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenkyy\u2019s comments towards Israel\u2019s lack of support have become harsher in recent times. This is not the first time that the Ukrainian administration has pointed out Israel\u2019s lack of material support for Ukraine. Earlier in March this year, Zelenskyy addressed the Israeli parliament through a video link where he rebuked Israel for not supporting Ukrainian war efforts and for not taking a clear stance against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. \u201cOne can often ask why we cannot receive weapons from you, why Israel did not impose serious sanctions on Russia?” He said during his speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian administration started asking for weapons and support from the Western countries shortly after the Russian invasion started in February 2022. President Zelenskyy made several requests to Israel to immediately provide Ukraine with their Iron Dome missile defense systems, which could have been used to intercept Russian rocket attacks on civilian settlements saving many lives and reducing the damage. However, despite the repeated requests from Ukraine, Israeli authorities never gave a positive response to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israeli Iron Dome defense system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells. (Image Credit: AFP\/via Nationalinterest)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Kornichuk lashed out at Israel\u2019s Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman following his comments where he referred to Israel\u2019s position of “neutrality” regarding the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kornichuk said, “It is unthinkable that Liberman would not strongly condemn the attacking side.” He further added that “Ukraine was dragged by Russia into this bloody war and our citizens are paying a very heavy price every single day. I am shocked by Mr. Liberman’s indifference toward the crimes that the Ukrainian people have experienced at the hands of the Russians.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Israel openly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Jewish state is in an awkward position as it does not want completely sever its relations with Russia in the light of Russia\u2019s military presence in Syria. Israel is also trying to support the West against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. There is also a substantially large Ukrainian-Jewish population that lives in Israel, mounting the pressure even further on the Israeli administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy complained about Israel\u2019s lack of support for Ukraine\u2019s war efforts. During an interview with a European news channel, Zelenskyy said, \u201cIsrael gave us nothing. Nothing, zero\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,44,1],"tags":[75,6,357,26,356,20,13,22,63],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-europe","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ukraine-President-Zelenskyy-visits-Dnipropetrovsk.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-30K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11581,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}