{"id":1370673,"date":"2026-03-17T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-sent-over-200-experts-to-the-middle-east-to-counter-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:18:25","slug":"ukraine-sent-over-200-experts-to-the-middle-east-to-counter-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-sent-over-200-experts-to-the-middle-east-to-counter-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine sent over 200 experts to the Middle East to counter drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 201 Ukrainian experts are currently in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/xKZVibbkTrk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while speaking in the British Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zelensky noted that another 34 specialists from Ukraine specializing in countering Iranian drones will arrive in the region in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, Ukrainian military personnel are already in several countries in the Middle East, in particular the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Experts are also heading to Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The president said that Ukraine had sent specialists to the Middle East in response to requests from partners. He added that this was part of a drone deal that was being offered to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Ukraine is ready to offer all partners similar agreements \u2014 from cooperation in the field of UAVs to future defense alliances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone would want to leave Ukraine\u2019s war-tested strength and capabilities outside its security. And if they did, it would be unwise,\u201d the president emphasized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-vidpravyla-komandy-ekspertiv-zi-zbyttia-droniv-na-blyzkyy-skhid-zelenskyy\/\">Ukraine has sent three teams of experts to the Middle East<\/a> . They will work in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-vzhe-napravyla-ekspertiv-ta-perekhopliuvachi-na-blyzkyy-skhid-zelenskyy\/\">Ukraine previously sent an expert team and interceptor drones<\/a> to help protect American military bases in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainska-komanda-na-choli-z-umierovym-vidpravylys-u-rehion-perskoi-zatoky-dlia-stabilizatsii-sytuatsii-zelenskyy\/\">a Ukrainian team led by Umerov traveled to the Persian Gulf region<\/a> to help countries protect the lives of their populations and resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that 201 Ukrainian experts are currently in the Middle East. He said this while speaking in the British Parliament. Zelensky noted that another 34 specialists from Ukraine specializing in countering Iranian drones will arrive in the region in the near future. According to him, Ukrainian military personnel are already in several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1288058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76873,76875,76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1370673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}