KHARKIV, Aug 16 – Ukraine, along with France and Russia, was a leading source of repatriates to Israel over the past five years, Israeli Minister of the Environment, Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Zeev Elkin said.

"Over the past five years three countries - France, Ukraine and Russia - are leading sources of repatriation, they are in the top three, interchanging between them. The United States is fourth," Elkin said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.