Seeing the effectiveness of Israeli anti-aircraft defense made Volodymyr Zelensky react. While his country has been at war with Russia for more than two years after the invasion launched by Moscow in February 2022, the Ukrainian president compared his situation with that of the Middle East in a video this Monday evening.
In his daily message, he returned to the Iranian attack on Israel on the night of Saturday to Sunday, during which hundreds of drones and missiles were fired, but almost all of them were intercepted before hitting the ground. “This proves how effective a defense can be when it is based on sufficient political will,” began the Ukrainian head of state.
“As Israel is not a member of NATO, the implementation of article 5 (
on common defense
) was not required. So no one was dragged into the war. They just helped protect human lives,” he observed, citing the United States, the United Kingdom and France who “acted together” to intercept missiles, as Emmanuel Macron recognized on Monday. Morning.
Like Israel, Ukraine is also not part of NATO. However, just like the Hebrew State this weekend, it is with “Shahed” drones – of Iranian manufacture – that kyiv is regularly attacked, with Russia receiving military support from Tehran.
Possible to intercept “almost 100%” of missiles, according to Zelensky
Enough to make Volodymyr Zelensky say that “European skies could have received the same level of protection (
as Israel
) a long time ago if Ukraine had received the same full support from its partners in the interception of drones and missiles. If the Ukrainian president wanted to thank his partners, he also judged that the situation in the Middle East made it possible to know that it is possible to intercept “almost 100% of
Shaheds
and missiles”.
“This attack failed because Israel, the United States and a coalition of other partners committed to Israel's security made it fail,” the White House said Monday, while Emmanuel Macron admitted that French planes intercepted missiles.
Already on Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky had judged that “it is not rhetoric that protects the sky”, urging Kiev's supporters not to “turn a blind eye to Russian missiles and drones” which are targeting Ukraine.