Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Ukraine's Ambassador to Israel Evgen Korniychuk announced Tuesday.
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The two leaders spoke last week and discussed, among other things, Jewish pilgrimage to the Ukrainian town of Uman for the Rosh Hashanah festivities.
Video: Zelenskyy calls for greater focus on war / Credit: Reuters
Netanyahu is the only Western leader to not make an official visit to Kyiv, despite repeated invitations from Kyiv and the recommendation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. In February, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with Zelenskyy during a visit to the Ukrainian capital.
In related news, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with President Vladimir Putin at a cosmodrome in Russia's Far East on Wednesday for talks that are likely to focus on Russia's desire to buy ammunition to refill reserves drained by its war in Ukraine.
The meeting underscores deepening cooperation as the two isolated leaders are locked in separate confrontations with the United States. In return for providing ammunition, North Korea will likely want shipments of food and energy and transfers of sophisticated weapons technologies.
The meeting with Putin is Kim's first with a foreign leader since North Korea closed its borders in January 2020. They met for the first time in April 2019, two months after Kim's high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with then-US President Donald Trump collapsed.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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