WSJ: Israel Speaks About Broken Relations With Russia

The Kremlin has never officially condemned the Hamas attack.

The aggressor country Russia lost its “entente relations” with Israel after the Hamas attack and the reaction of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Cooperation between the two states has been broken, writes the The Wall Street Journal.

Israel and Russia continued to maintain relations even after Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Israel, in addition, refused to supply military aid to Kyiv, despite pressure from the West.

However, after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, Putin became one of the few world leaders who did not express condolences to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Russia has never officially condemned the Hamas attack.

This marked the end of relations between Jerusalem and the Kremlin, which proves the “highlights a tectonic shift in Russia's role in the Middle East” since Putin launched his war in Ukraine, WSJ emphasizes. Scrambling for weapons and allies for its failed invasion, Russia has changed its relationship with Iran, with which it exchanges weapons, and has begun to strengthen ties with Arab states.

Moreover, the Kremlin has internal reasons to welcome a war far from its borders, since it diverts attention from Russia's internal problems and from failures at the front in the war against Ukraine, the article reads.