Iran: European leaders praise Zelensky’s drone interception support

The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy acknowledged the “drone interception expertise” of President Volodymyr Zelensky during a treatment connected Iran connected Friday.

In a telephone conversation, they commended ​Zelensky for offering to assistance partners successful the Middle East and underlined the value of ensuring enactment to Ukraine continued astatine scale.

The premiers condemned Iran’s “egregious attacks” arsenic Prime Minister Keir Starmer updated connected the antiaircraft measures taken by the UK to support and reenforce partners successful the region.

Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, and Giorgia Meloni agreed that continued intensive diplomacy and adjacent subject coordination would beryllium captious successful the coming days.

They besides agreed connected the request to coordinate intimately connected the concern successful the Strait of Hormuz, and reiterated their interest astir the concern successful Lebanon, wherever Israel has pounded targets.

In a station connected X connected Wednesday, Zelensky announced that Ukraine is sending immoderate of its subject specialists to the Middle East to assistance antagonistic Iranian drones and missiles.

The involution followed Kyiv’s consultation with partners successful Europe, the United States, ...