Volodymyr Groysman, who lost family in Holocaust, calls Russia's invasion 'a continuation of Nazi policy on a national basis,' notes 'Hitler was not stopped by economic sanctions'

Officials say conditions not currently ripe for Israeli involvement; Netanyahu tight-lipped on whether Zelensky asked him to assume role

Babi Yar is for Jews an 'eternal imperative,' Netanyahu says at Holocaust mass killing site in Kyiv; refuses to condemn Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea

President thanks Israel for backing Ukraine's territorial integrity after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, though Jerusalem issues no such statement of support

During Ukraine trip, seen by some as effort to woo Russian-speaking voters, Netanyahu set to meet country's new Jewish president, honor victims of both Holocaust and Holodomor

European Court of Justice judge Egil Levits and his Latvian patriot parents were expelled from former Soviet Union in 1972 because KGB viewed them as threat

With both a Jewish president and PM in office at the same time that WWII-era Nazi collaborators are celebrated, the local community waits to see how society's attitude will pan out

PM also phones outgoing leader Petro Poroshenko to thank him for Israel support, ambassador says

After he's sworn in, at least for a while, his prime minister will be Volodymyr Groysman, a striking result in a country with a long history of anti-Semitism