Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a statement as he is received by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara (not pictured) ahead of the World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem memorial centre in Jerusalem, January 23, 2020. Heidi Levine/Pool via REUTERS
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to Israel on Thursday that he had given assurances to the mother of Naama Issachar, a U.S.-Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges, that "everything will be okay" for her daughter.
Israel has called on Russia to release Issachar who was sentenced by a Russian court to seven and a half years in jail on drug offences in October.
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