Iran fired more than 300 drones, rockets, and cruise missiles towards Israel on April 13. Around 99 percent of the missiles had been intercepted, said Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has now demanded the same help from the West that was given to Israel. NATO states continue to shy away from direct confrontation with Russia, as British Foreign Minister David Cameron recently emphasized. A direct attack by NATO troops on Russian troops must be avoided at all costs, Cameron said.. The British Foreign Secretary is against using fighter jets to combat Russian drones over Ukraine. People are losing patience in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president probably shouldn't expect support from Western fighter pilots any time soon. The Russians attack the neighboring country with explosives-laden Shahed drones - the same ones that were used by Iran against Israel. With Israel's support, "no one was drawn into the war, they just helped to protect lives," said Zelensky. The armed forces of the USA, Great Britain, and France had only intercepted Iranian missiles and drones, he said. They would have avoided any confrontation with Iranian forces that could lead to a direct military conflict. The US President Joe Biden is afraid of Putin's constant nuclear threats, former US ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst was quoted as saying. "We behave as if we weren't a nuclear superpower," said Herbst, according to the Wall Street Journal. The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) firmly rejected Macron's idea of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, saying "NATO is not – and will not be – a warring party.'