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“Diplomacy is the best path to de-escalate the situation,” Putin’s envoy says.
“We in Ukraine know very well the horror of similar attacks by Russia, which uses the same ‘Shahed’ drones and Russian missiles, the same tactics of mass airstrikes.”
Iran’s U.N. ambassador: “The United States is responsible for all crimes committed by the Israeli regime.”
The president said he went “to do his job as a reporter—risking his safety to shine the light of truth on Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine.”
“So it was Israel lol,” antisemitic activist Lucas Gage wrote on X.
Asked if ISIS grievances equated to Russians in the way U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres talked about a Hamas rationale for killing Israelis, a spokesperson said that was “a bit of an oversimplification.”
“What the hell is the point of the U.N. or the U.N. Security Council?” an Associated Press reporter asked at a U.S. State Department briefing.
It’s not the first antisemitic comment regarding the Ukrainian president to come out of Russia, which has painted Ukraine as a “Nazi” regime.
“All civilized nations should consistently condemn terrorist acts, regardless of the identity of the perpetrators,” said the Israeli premier.
The countries of the world must fight terrorism together, the Israeli president said.
“The images are just horrible and hard to watch,” said John Kirby, the White House national security communications advisor.
A former Israeli national security adviser tells JNS that Hamas’s attack could be part of multi-staged plan devised by Tehran leadership.
