BREITBART reports that Ukraine’s intelligence services are  working in “close cooperation” with their Israeli counterparts, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s said Thursday according to the Haaretz daily.

“I have very big respect for the leaders of your intelligence services,” Andriy Yermak, head of Zelensky’s office, told Israeli reporters. “I know many of them personally. These are very big professionals and patriots of Israel and patriots of the whole free world. So I do know that our intelligence is satisfied with this cooperation, but of course there is always more that can be done,” he said.

He added that Israel’s intelligence community was “one of the best of the world.”

Yermak praised Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s efforts to mediate between Ukraine and Russia,

He added that he considered Jerusalem “as one of the priority venues for the meeting of President Zelensky with the president of the Russian Federation.”

“It is high time now for that meeting of the presidents to take place. The war has been going on for too long,” he said.

He expressed his hope that Israel would become a guarantor of any security guarantees for Ukraine in a future peace accord.