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Alexander Lutsenko

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The Shift Israel Can No Longer Delay: Why Alliance with Ukraine Is Necessary

Israel at a Dangerous Pause: Why Delaying a Strategic Turn Toward Ukraine Has Become Riskier Than Making One For too long, Israel has lived inside a...

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Why Zelensky Wasn’t Invited to Israel: Reading Barak Ravid

Why Zelensky Wasn’t Invited to Israel: Reading Barak Ravid

On March 28, this story took on an especially uncomfortable dimension for Jerusalem. While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was traveling...

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CCD Sees a Russian Fingerprint in Hezbollah’s FPV Strike

CCD Sees a Russian Fingerprint in Hezbollah’s FPV Strike

On March 27, 2026, Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), published video of what he described as a...

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Kherson’s 17 Generators: Ordinary Israelis Turned Donations into Power

Kherson’s 17 Generators: Ordinary Israelis Turned Donations into Power

On March 25, 2026, the Israeli initiative Israeli Friends of Ukraine reported something that’s easy to say and hard to deliver: 17 generators had...

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Not About Frogs: Ukraine Hits Moscow’s Core Myth at the UN

On March 23, 2026, in New York, during a UN Security Council session on Ukraine, something important happened beyond the usual diplomatic routine....

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Washington Keeps Looking Into a Mirror: US Misreads Regimes Like Iran and Russia

America’s strategy keeps running into the same old problem: in Washington, ideologized regimes are still too often interpreted through the lens of...

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Why Ukraine’s air-defense lessons still haven’t reached the Gulf

Ukrainian military advisers sent to the Middle East at CENTCOM’s request came away stunned by what they saw in the Persian Gulf. According to The...

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Zelensky and Netanyahu: From Cold Distance to Pragmatic Partnership

For years, Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the hardest leaders in Ukraine to read. Not an enemy. Not a friend. Not quite an ally either. More often, he...

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Zelensky’s ‘Bad Feeling’ About Iran Is Also a Warning for Israel

On March 18, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky made it clear that he does not see the war around Iran as a separate Middle Eastern crisis unfolding somewhere...

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Hezbollah seeks handover of a ‘Mossad agent’ from Ukraine’s embassy in Lebanon

By March 16, 2026, what began as a Lebanese security accusation had already become something larger: a test of how far Hezbollah is willing to drag...

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How Ukraine’s Cheap Interceptors Could Break Iran’s Hormuz Strategy

By mid-March 2026, the Strait of Hormuz had stopped being merely a geographic chokepoint on the map of the Middle East. It had once again become a...

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A Modern ‘Banality of Evil’: UN Calls Russia’s Deportation of Ukrainian Kids a Crime

Adolf Eichmann: “I was doing my duty… I not only obeyed orders — I obeyed the law.” That is how Adolf Eichmann explained his actions during...

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White House Ignored Ukraine’s Anti-Drone Tech Until War With Iran Began

Wars often reveal their most important lessons only after they have already begun. Before the first missiles fly and before the first drones appear on...

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Kremlin “Cries” Over Israel-Bombed “Russian Culture House” in Hezbollah Lebanon

Once again Moscow staged a familiar performance: dramatic statements, accusations of “unprovoked aggression,” and stories about how somewhere in...

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Russia Gives Iran Intel to Strike US Forces. Do Israelis Think It Ends There?

There are moments when you read the news and think: no, this is too much even by the standards of modern geopolitics. And then it turns out to be...

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Kremlin labels Israel an ‘Aggressor’ again. When will Jerusalem answer?

On March 5, 2026, Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued an official statement on the Middle East and directly labeled Israel and the United States...

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Is There a ‘Different League’ for Israel with Putin in the Future?

On March 2, 2026, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha issued a statement that cut directly to the strategic core of the Iranian question. His...

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Zelensky Says Iranians Should Have a Chance to Escape the Regime

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s reaction 28/02/2026 to the recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran was not framed primarily as a regional...

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‘Sympathy Is Not Enough’: Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Asman at Kyiv Justice Conference

KYIV — February 23, 2026. Senior Ukrainian officials, international diplomats and legal experts gathered in the Ukrainian capital for the Justice...

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‘This Is Madness’ A Ukrainian Jewish Chaplain Speaks From the Front Lines of War

“There is a law that says: ‘If someone comes to kill you — rise and strike first.’ That is the essential principle. Defending your country is...

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In Support of Ukraine: Tel Aviv Rally Marks War Anniversary with Unity and Hope

On the evening of February 24, 2026 — the solemn fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — a powerful demonstration of...

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Israel to Send 117 Mobile Generators to Kyiv Region as Energy Pressure Continues

On February 24, 2026 — the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — Israel announced a practical and timely step of...

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Jewish monuments damaged in Ukraine by Russian attacks: 4 years of data

On February 22, 2026, just days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine published a...

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‘We will celebrate no matter what’: 4th Purim in Ukraine amid Russia’s war

On February 19, 2026, Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine shared what, in a normal year, would read like a community logistics note: Purim is...

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Promise withdrawn? Netanya, a Russian cosmonaut, and the cost of a broken word

A lecture in Netanya was announced. Protests followed. The municipality said it was canceled. Days later, it took place. What began as an educational...

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Israel allocates up to 4 million shekels to aid freezing cities in Ukraine

On February 19, 2026, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism published a straightforward announcement: up to 4 million...

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