Sa’ar meets Zelensky in Kyiv, discusses countering Iran

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (right) meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on July 23, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (right) meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on July 23, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

According to Sa’ar’s office, the meeting was “friendly and conducted in a positive atmosphere.”

They discuss strengthening bilateral ties, the war in Ukraine, and “the situation in the Middle East, with an emphasis on Iran,” according to the Israeli readout.

Sa’ar asks Zelensky to push for the Ukrainian parliament to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, and calls for the E3 — Germany, France and the UK — to activate snapback sanctions on Iran.

He also presents Zelensky with the Dinah Project report on sexual violence by Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

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