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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Russian ambassador says families of embassy employees evacuated from Israel
The families of Russian diplomats have left Israel, Russia’s ambassador to Tel Aviv Anatoly Viktorov says, as Israel and Iran traded fire for a sixth day.
“Almost all the wives and children of embassy employees” left on Tuesday via Egypt “to return to their homeland,” Viktorov says, interviewed by pro-Kremlin presenter Vladimir Solovyev.
He also does not rule out the possibility that the Russian embassy could be moved “to a more secure location without leaving Israel.”
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