Jerusalem Post reporter Sam Sokol traveled the Ukraine numerous times from 2013 to cover Jewish communities as the country spiraled into conflict with Russia. He found that each side wanted to exploit the Jews for competing political purposes, documented in his book, Putin's Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry.

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