Ukraine wants cash, technology in return for helping Middle East nations fight drones

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Ukrainian President Zelensky announced that Ukraine is offering anti-drone defense expertise to Middle Eastern nations in exchange for cash and technology, deploying specialist teams to four countries in the region. Gulf states have been heavily expending resources defending against Iranian-made kamikaze drones. The arrangement reflects Ukraine's effort to leverage its battlefield drone experience as a diplomatic and economic asset.

Ukraine wants money and technology in return for helping Middle Eastern nations defend against Iranian kamikaze drones, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, after Kyiv ‌sent specialists to four countries in the region. Zelensky told reporters in comments cleared for release on Sunday that each of the three teams sent to the Middle East consisted of dozens of people who will conduct expert assessments and demonstrate how drone defences should operate. Gulf states have ⁠expended large quantities of...