Zelenskiy Offers Help to Stop Iranian Drones In Return for Truce

A Shahed drone over Kyiv, Ukraine.Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg

Volodymyr Zelenskiy offered to send his best experts in shooting down Iranian drones to the Middle East if leaders there convince Vladimir Putin to agree to a month-long truce in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion has allowed Kyiv to develop unique expertise in intercepting drones, many of them Iranian-made Shaheds currently being deployed against countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the Ukrainian president said on Monday.