Curtain raiser for Netanyahu's two-day trip to Ukraine:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to embark on a two-day trip to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where he is expected to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and visit a Holocaust memorial.
The last Israeli head of government to visit Ukraine was Netanyahu himself more than 20 years ago, in March 1999.
Couple of stories from overnight:
-- Best-selling, award-winning Russian author Zakhar Prilepin has said the military unit in which he served in the Donbas conflict of eastern Ukraine “killed many people” and that he has no regrets having fought.
-- Ukraine’s SBU security service said it detained an Israeli-American suspected of heading a major online drug-dealing ring a day after he escaped while being extradited to Israel.