The Israeli Embassy in Kyiv will fully reopen over the course of the week, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday quoting Ambassador Michael Brodsky.
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The staff evacuated to western Ukraine on Feb. 21, shortly before the outbreak of the war. Five days later, the embassy relocated to Poland, where it helped Israelis fleeing Ukraine cross the border.
Brodsky returned to Kyiv on May 17, where he temporarily reopened the embassy and raised the country's flag together with several other diplomats.
However, as relative calm has returned to central Ukraine, Russia continue to pound the country's east.
On Tuesday, its troops bombarded Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv and surrounding countryside with rockets, killing at least 15 people, in what Kyiv called a bid to force it to pull resources from the main battlefield to protect civilians from attack.
"Russian forces are now hitting the city of Kharkiv in the same way that they previously were hitting Mariupol - with the aim of terrorizing the population," Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in a video address.
"And if they keep doing that we will have to react -- and that is one way to make us move our artillery," he said. "The idea is to create one big problem to distract us and force us to divert troops. I think there will be an escalation."
Kharkiv suffered punishing Russian shelling for the first three months of the war, but had largely been spared since the Ukrainian counter-offensive more than a month ago.
The main battlefield is now to the south in the Donbas region, which Moscow has been trying to seize on behalf of its separatist proxies.
Ukrainian forces in the Donbas have largely been withstanding the Russian assault so far, with Moscow making only slow progress despite deploying overwhelming artillery in some of the heaviest ground fighting in Europe since World War II.
Also on Tuesday, Estonia summoned the Russian ambassador to protest an "extremely serious" violation of its airspace by a Russian helicopter, the second time in less than two weeks that Tallinn has reprimanded Moscow's envoy.
It also expressed solidarity with fellow Baltic nation Lithuania, which Moscow says will be punished for banning the transit of some goods to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
The Estonian Foreign Ministry said the helicopter had flown over a point in the south-east without permission on June 18.
"Estonia considers this an extremely serious and regrettable incident that undoubtedly causes additional tensions and is completely unacceptable," it said in a statement, repeating calls for Russian troops to leave Ukraine. "Russia must stop threatening its neighbors and understand that the price of the aggression Russia launched against Ukraine is indeed high."
A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin told Lithuania it would feel pain for banning transit of goods sanctioned by the European Union across its territory to and from Kaliningrad.
Estonia also complained to the envoy on June 10 about Putin's praise for an 18th century Russian ruler who captured a city that is now Estonian.
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia belonged to the Russian empire before gaining independence in the aftermath of World War One. In 1940 the Soviet Union annexed the trio, which did not regain their independence until 1991.
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