Ukraine deploys units to five Middle East countries to intercept drones

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-deploys-units-intercept-targets-middle-east-2026-03-20/

by onemoresoop • 4 months ago

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octopoc• 4 months ago

This behavior makes sense for Zelensky, who is strongly pro-Israel, but I don’t think this is in Ukraine’s best interest. I really hate how many people have died in the Russia-Ukraine war and this will only serve to lengthen it. Imagine getting drafted to go fight Iran.

NetMageSCW• 4 months ago

Your comment seems unrelated to the article?

genxy2• 4 months ago

That Ukraine is taking frontline needed anti-drone resources to protect 3rd parties in a war it is not involved in?

What part of their comment seems unrelated?

warmonger3• 4 months ago

Yeah, pretty sad situation especially if you have some empathy for those who don't want to fight but got tricked by their governments. Imagine you're 18 again and you have your plans to study in University, but instead the government which should serve the people (ha) sends you to die for a piece of land and to keep their leader positions.

In the end those wars are just a power and influence games for the ruling class.

Sometimes I think if the world would be better if instead of ~200 counties we had only ~10? But how to unite counties? People can agree to unite, but no one from the ruling class will agree to lose the power. So we are back to the war theme, because the war is the easiest way to unite pieces of land, but how to unite people? No idea, but... but we can find a new common enemy!

djhn2• 4 months ago

Ukraine draft age limit is now 25. It was lowered from 27 in 2024. If you are young and heading to university, you’re safe (for now). Even if the age limit is lowered, it will likely apply to NEETs first.

mindslight2• 4 months ago

Imagine you're 18 again and you have your plans to study in University, but instead the government which should serve the people (ha) sends you to die for a piece of land and to keep their leader positions

Your simplistic narrative doesn't capture the reality of the situation, at all. The people of Ukraine weren't given a choice of whether to be at war or not, doubly so for people in the eastern part of the country. And it's not just about who is the "leader", but rather staring down a known pattern of atrocities and long-term economic oppression. So attributing the responsibility of who ruined those plans to "the government" is just fallacious.

Your pragmatic personal decision might still be to run, and I wouldn't be arguing against that. But extrapolating that personal decision out to a general condemnation of other reactions to being attacked is disingenuous and reeks of the demoralizing propaganda put out by Russia.

IshKebab• 4 months ago

Uhm, did you miss this bit?

Zelenskiy has said Kyiv wanted money and technology in return for its help in the Middle East

jbverschoor• 4 months ago

Sure.. why not andd another country to the war. Next thing you know the whole world is at war

rasz• 4 months ago

You do realize Iran was supplying shahed drones for 4 years now? Ukraine was hit with almost 60000 of those drones, vast majority targeting civilian population in clear terrorist attacks. Iran was always a party to the russian war.

Ukraine deploys units to five Middle East countries to intercept drones

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