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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Volodymyr Groysman

Then Ukrainian prime minister Volodymyr Groysman pictured in 2018 (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)
March 10, 2022, 5:00 pm
Blankets won’t save us from bombs: Ukraine’s Jewish ex-PM pleads for Israel’s help
Volodymyr Groysman, who lost family in Holocaust, calls Russia’s invasion ‘a continuation of Nazi policy on a national basis,’ notes ‘Hitler was not stopped by economic sanctions’
By Gareth Browne
PM Netanyahu, left, and Ukrainian President Zelensky address the press at the presidential residence in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019 (Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO)
August 20, 2019, 4:29 pm
PM and Ukraine president discuss possible Israeli mediation in Russia conflict
Officials say conditions not currently ripe for Israeli involvement; Netanyahu tight-lipped on whether Zelensky asked him to assume role
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Babi Yar ravine, where Nazi troops murdered thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 20, 2019, 1:55 am
Netanyahu hints Israel behind strikes on Iraq, says Iran not immune anywhere
Babi Yar is for Jews an ‘eternal imperative,’ Netanyahu says at Holocaust mass killing site in Kyiv; refuses to condemn Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea
By Raphael Ahren
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, hosts PM Netanyahu at his official residence in Kyiv, August 19, 2019 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 19, 2019, 5:16 pm
In Kyiv, PM vows to advance pensions for Israelis with Ukrainian roots
President thanks Israel for backing Ukraine’s territorial integrity after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, though Jerusalem issued no such statement of support
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara board a flight to Ukraine on August 18, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 18, 2019, 5:30 pm
Heading to Ukraine, Netanyahu says military operation in Gaza possible
During Kiev trip, seen by some as effort to woo Russian-speaking voters, PM set to meet country’s new Jewish president, honor victims of both Holocaust and Holodomor
By Raphael Ahren
Newly elected Latvian president, former European Court of Justice judge Egils Levits gives a press conference in Riga, Latvia, on May 29, 2019. ( Ilmars ZNOTINS / AFP)
May 29, 2019, 5:46 pm
MPs elect ex-Soviet dissident with Jewish roots as Latvian president
European Court of Justice judge Egil Levits and his Latvian patriot parents were expelled from former Soviet Union in 1972 because KGB viewed them as threat
By AFP and ToI Staff
Participants in the March of Dignity gather in Kiev’s Maidan Independence Square for ceremonies marking the first anniversary of the Maidan Revolution that led to the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovic, February 22, 2015. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
May 15, 2019, 4:37 pm
5 years after the Ukrainian revolution, Jews there say it was a mixed blessing
With both a Jewish president and PM in office at the same time that WWII-era Nazi collaborators are celebrated, the local community waits to see how society’s attitude will pan out
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky reacts after the announcement of the first exit poll results in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election, at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, on April 21, 2019. (Genya Savilov/AFP)
April 22, 2019, 11:41 pm
Netanyahu congratulates new Ukraine president, invites him to Israel
PM also phones outgoing leader Petro Poroshenko to thank him for Israel support, ambassador says
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky reacts after the announcement of the first exit poll results in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election at his campaign headquarters in Kiev on April 21, 2019. (Sergei Gapon/AFP)
April 22, 2019, 1:43 am
Zelensky win makes Ukraine 1st country outside Israel with Jewish PM, president
Marvels one columnist: ‘Imagine, a pure-blooded Jew with the appearance of a Sholom Aleichem protagonist wins by a landslide in a country that glorifies Nazi criminals’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Volodymyr Zelensky as the character Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko in his TV comedy show 'Servant of the People' (Yaroslav Burdovitsin/Wikimedia Commons)
March 28, 2019, 8:22 pm
Is Ukraine’s top presidential candidate Jewish? Even his spokesman won’t comment
In a country where it is ‘rude’ to ask about religion, ToI gets mixed results when speaking with Jewish leaders about Volodymyr Zelensky and his projected impact on the community
By Julie Masis
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, congratulates popular Russian singer Iosif Kobzon before the gala to mark Kobzon's 80th birthday at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, September 20, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
May 30, 2018, 8:38 am
Ukraine strips assets, medals from Jewish singer who backed Putin
Holocaust survivor Iosif Kobzon says Crimea ‘primordially belongs’ to Russia
By JTA
Children at Tikva's kindergarten preparing materials for the Jewish festival of Lag B‘Omer, Odessa, Ukraine, May 12, 2017. (Photo Sue Surkes)
May 17, 2017, 5:59 am
Ukraine’s Jews walk narrow line between murderous past and uncertain future
As Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman winds up a three-day visit to Israel, Jews back home try to cope with economic difficulties and the effects of war
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (L) at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. (Kobi Gidon/GPO)
May 15, 2017, 7:03 pm
Marking end to spat, Netanyahu meets with Ukraine’s Jewish premier
After nadir in ties over Kiev’s support for anti-settlement UN resolution, PM says ‘friendship on a new path’
By Alexander Fulbright
Illustrative: A Jewish man covers himself with a prayer shawl while praying near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the Passover priestly blessing on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 15, 2017, 2:14 pm
New US envoy: I went to Western Wall, prayed for Trump’s success
Five new sharia court judges, including first woman qadi, sworn in; defense minister acknowledges clash with Washington over US embassy move
By ToI Staff
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman speaks to the press during his visit to the International Exhibition Center in Kiev on April 28, 2017. (AFP Phptp/Sergei Supinksy)
April 30, 2017, 3:19 pm
Following earlier snub, Ukraine’s Jewish PM to visit Israel in May
Groysman’s arrival to mark formal end of tensions, after last trip was nixed over support for anti-settlement UN measure
By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren
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