The Russia-Ukraine war has now entered day 20 and the tensions between the two countries are far from over. Despite multiple rounds of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, the war is going on in Kyiv on a full scale. As a result, Israel has come forward to mediate on Russia-Ukraine war and stop the ongoing violence and aggression. Amidst steps of peace talks, Russian tanks were caught firing mercilessly upon residential buildings in Ukraine.
Russian tanks firing at residential buildings in Ukraine was shared by European Union media Nexta TV. Russian tank viral video shows two heavily armored tanks firing upon residential areas and wreaking havoc around the locality. As per the European media, Russian tanks firing viral video was filmed in Volnovakha, Ukraine. The video further shows the havoc and demolition created by the Russian tanks and soldiers in the residential area.
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Why does Israel want to mediate between Russia & Ukraine?
There are two key reasons that explain Israeli PM Neftali Bennet's activism on Russia-Ukraine mediation:
First, as the chief patron of safeguarding Jewish interests worldwide, Israel is naturally interested in Ukraine. It is estimated that an estimated 50,000-200,000 jews reside in Ukraine whose lives could be endangered because the war, which is likely to remain protracted. Ukrainian Jewish community lives mostly in four cities: Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Odessa.
Israel has been seriously concerned by the rise of the neo-Nazi groups, who are also in Putin's cross-hairs, after the Maidan square uprising in 2014. Since 2014, hundreds of Jews have reportedly fled Donetsk and Luhansk, which is in the eye of the on-going conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Second, there are other domestic compulsions that are driving Bennet's mediation effort. A sizeable number of Russian Jews, which have their connections with Moscow, have migrated to Israel. No government can alienate this electorally important constituency.