After Reports That Zelensky Was Told to “Surrender,” Tensions Between Ukraine and Israel Have Risen, U.N. Standing in the Wings

HNewsWire-This week, a strange diplomatic back and forth between Ukraine and Israel erupted when a senior assistant to President Volodymyr Zelensky informed the media that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett encouraged Kiev to accept Putin’s plan for ending the conflict, thus surrendering. “Bennett is practically ordering us to surrender, and we have no plans to do so,” an unidentified senior Ukrainian official told Axios. Following the story, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office issued a categorical rebuttal of the accusation. According to Axios, Zelensky and his advisers were enraged by Bennett’s reported proposal, which may have contributed to the dialogue being leaked to the press. Bennett, according to Kiev, instigated the Tuesday conversation during which the advise was offered. Russia has requested that, in order to stop the conflict, Ukraine accept Russian sovereignty over Crimea, the statehood of Donetsk and Luhansk,…

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