KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Jordan on Sunday (Mar 29) as a part of a Gulf tour aimed at shoring up defence ties with nations within the area amid rising tensions over the Iran warfare.
Zelenskyy is in search of help from Gulf states for Ukraine’s warfare towards Russia as Western army support faces contemporary uncertainty and Kyiv struggles to cowl its finances deficit and fund home weapons manufacturing.
“At this time in Jordan. Safety is the highest precedence, and it’s important that each one companions make the mandatory efforts towards it,” Zelenskyy wrote on X. “Ukraine is doing its half. Vital conferences forward.”
Kyiv has provided its air-defence experience and drone expertise to nations within the area in search of to counter Iran’s drone assaults.
The go to comes after Ukraine, which has sought to leverage its experience in downing Russian drones to assist Gulf nations, agreed to cooperate on defence with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Ukrainian anti-drone consultants have been deployed to all three nations since Iran responded to US-Israeli aerial bombardments that started a couple of month in the past.
A Ukrainian workforce can also be in Jordan, a senior official informed AFP earlier this month on the situation of anonymity, with out elaborating.
Ukraine makes use of a mixture of low-cost drone interceptors, digital jamming instruments and anti-aircraft weapons to down Russian drones.
It has proposed swapping its interceptors for the costly air-defence missiles that US allies within the area are at the moment utilizing to down Iranian drones.
