The Jerusalem Post writesthat Ukraine is interested in acquiring the Iron Dome air defense system, which Israel uses to repel air attacks.
The publication says that Ukrainian Ambassador Yevhen Korniychuk announced Kyiv’s plans. At the same time, the diplomat accused the Israeli authorities of the lack of assistance, blocking the supply of foreign weapons and refusing to provide humanitarian assistance, for example, to treat wounded soldiers in their hospitals. The ambassador also said that the topic of Ukraine is beginning to disappear from the pages of the Israeli media, as if nothing is happening. On the topic of weapons, he cited the incident with the Rafael anti-tank system as an example: according to the diplomat, the United States had previously given permission to transfer the Spike ATGM from Germany to Ukraine, but Israel refused to agree on an agreement.
“I want the Israeli government to leave its comfort zone and return to reality,” Korniychuk said. “We need Israel’s support. We need the support of military equipment, we need the Iron Dome.”
JP points out that Israel has previously refused to provide any military assistance to Ukraine, trying to establish ties simultaneously with Kyiv and Moscow. Prime Minister Naftali Bennet stated that he does not consider the Iron Dome a weapon, but rather a defensive technology, since it is impossible to attack anyone with it. Ambassador Korniychuk, in turn, noted that Ukraine does not need gratuitous “donations”: “We want to buy.”
At the same time, the interviewed experts told the publication that Israel would hardly agree to sell the technology to Ukraine or any other country, since there is an agreement with the United States on this matter, as well as for reasons of control over the export of Israeli defense products.
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