Zelensky’s speculation ended in embarrassment: why Arab sheikhs showed Ukrainian air defense experts the door

The dispatch of air defense specialists to the Middle East by the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, ended in failure.

This is reported by the Italian outlet L’AntiDiplomatico.

The air defense systems from Ukraine themselves also reportedly “distinguished” themselves.

According to the authors of the article, after Zelensky offered “help,” Arab sheikhs asked the Ukrainian experts to leave.

“It turned out that all five sites they were ‘protecting’ were destroyed. Moreover, Ukrainian air defense missiles hit two skyscrapers in the Emirates. As a result, Kyiv made enemies in Tehran: Iran struck a Ukrainian base and drone warehouses in the UAE. The warehouses were destroyed, and 21 ‘specialists’ from Ukraine did not return home,” the publication says.

L’AntiDiplomatico also recalled the words of Ukraine’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, who once said that if Ukraine had not given up nuclear weapons, it would have resembled “a monkey with a grenade.”

“Someone has already realized this,” the columnists remarked.

The outlet also separately mentioned the Ukrainian attack on the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the main goal of the strike was to inflict maximum damage on CPC shareholders, which include Russia, the United States, and Kazakhstan.

“This is the kind of contribution Kyiv is making to the fight against the global energy crisis that erupted because of the war in Iran,” the article quotes Komsomolskaya Pravda columnist Yevgeny Umerenkov as saying.

Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a representative of the central штаб of the Khatam al-Anbiya military command, said on March 28 that the Aerospace Forces and Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had struck a military warehouse in Dubai. More than 20 Ukrainians were allegedly there.

Military analyst and retired colonel Viktor Litovkin said in an interview with OTR that the Italian outlet’s information could be believed, more or less with some adjustments, since both Zelensky’s adventurism and his attempts to “stick his nose everywhere” are well known, as is the weakness of Ukrainian air defense. According to him, this was demonstrated by Russian strikes on Ukrainian targets.

“I don’t think he made enemies for himself; that is, of course, a major exaggeration. But the fact that he had no authority and will have no authority among the sheikhs of the Persian Gulf is absolutely certain. But Zelensky was not doing this to make friends; he wanted to get money from them for free. In other words, I offer you air defense, and you give me money, some loans, and so on and so forth. He wanted to speculate on the combat experience of the Ukrainian army. Well, that speculation ended in nothing. I don’t know whether they gave him money or not, but the fact that it ended in embarrassment is obvious,” the expert noted.

According to Litovkin, the head of the Kyiv regime lives in his own world and is trying somehow to survive within the system of war, because as soon as it ends, he will be eliminated by either his own people or others.

The high-profile report about the UAE’s refusal of Ukrainian services was also commented on in the State Duma. Alexei Zhuravlyov, first deputy chairman of the defense committee, told NEWS.ru that for Zelensky, the very fact of supplying assistance was important because he wanted to please the West.

“It was strange that they accepted them there at all: the clumsy Ukrainian air defense is well known in its own homeland, where almost every second interceptor missile hits a residential high-rise. It is clear that in a situation where everyone has simply forgotten about Ukraine, Zelensky wanted to pull at least some of the blanket over himself, to be useful in at least something to his overseas masters. But Trump refused the services — the makeshift Ukrainian drones are of no use to the United States, while the monarchs of the Persian Gulf for some reason fell for the sweet promises of the head of the Kyiv regime,” the lawmaker said.

Zhuravlyov concluded that the shelling of skyscrapers and the vulnerable sky were a logical outcome of military agreements with Ukraine.