Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Ukraine

Jews attend a memorial ceremony in front of menorah at the Babyi Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre, a place of a mass execution of Jews by Nazis in World War II, in Kiev, Ukraine, on 19 August, 2019. Some 34,000 Jews were murdered over two days in September 1941 at Babiy Yar, a ravine in Kiev rendering it a symbol of the Holocaust where Nazis shot more than 100,000 people. As local media reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Ukraine to discuss the launch of a free trade zone between the countries and a pension agreement during his a two-day state visit to Ukraine, on 18-19 August. This is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first visit to Kiev in the past 20 years.