Naftali Bennett's Calculated Effort to Engage with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine—and Iran
On Saturday night, while Russian forces entered the Ukrainian city of Volnovakha, and blocked convoys of food and medicine intended for the nearby besieged city of Mariupol, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's President, called Naftali Bennett, the Israeli Prime Minister. The two spoke for more than an hour and discussed, Zelensky tweeted, "Russian aggression and the prospects for peace talks"—which, earlier in the day, Zelensky had suggested might take place in Jerusalem.
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