Zelenskyy says Ukrainian interceptors downed Iran drones in the Middle East
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy previously announced that 228 Ukrainian experts had been deployed to region amid the US-Israel war with Iran.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that his country’s technology was used to shoot down Iranian drones in the Middle East, after he had announced last month that expert teams had been deployed to the region following the outbreak of the United States-Israeli war on Iran.
In a post on X on Friday, Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces took part in operations using domestically produced interceptor drones against “Shahed” drones, simillar to those used by Russia during its ongoing war on Ukraine.
“Did we destroy Iranian ‘shaheds?’ Yes, we did. Did we do it in just one country? No, in several. And in my view, this is a success,” Zelenskyy said in remarks to journalists, without elaborating on which country was aided.
“This was not about a training mission or exercises, but about support in building a modern air defence system that can actually work. In those countries that opened up their air defence systems to us, our experts were able to very quickly advise how to make those systems stronger,” he said.
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