{"id":27644,"date":"2024-04-16T10:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/middle-east-crisis-global-leaders-press-iran-and-israel-to-avoid-escalation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:32:44","slug":"middle-east-crisis-global-leaders-press-iran-and-israel-to-avoid-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/middle-east-crisis-global-leaders-press-iran-and-israel-to-avoid-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Crisis: Global Leaders Press Iran and Israel to Avoid Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For people in eastern Ukraine, where nightly barrages of drones from Russia outpace the military\u2019s overwhelmed air defenses, the response by Western allies to Iran\u2019s aerial assault against Israel this weekend produced uncomfortable comparisons.<\/p>\n

The militaries of the United States, Britain, France and others stepped in to help Israel defend against the fusillade of more than 300 Iranian drones and missiles, nearly all of which were intercepted. A similar number of aerial weapons are fired at Ukraine on a weekly basis, its officials say, with many of the drones in those attacks designed by Iran and now produced by Russia.<\/p>\n

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Since the start of this year, Russia has fired 1,000 missiles, 2,800 drones and 7,000 guided aerial bombs at Ukraine, according to Ukraine\u2019s permanent representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya. While Washington and other allies have provided Kyiv with some powerful air defense weapons, they have not directly confronted Russian forces, and Ukrainian officials have long argued that the supplied weapons are insufficient to counter the threat from Moscow.<\/p>\n

In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where 1.3 million people live with nightly air raid alarms, many people expressed anger and disappointment over the weekend that Ukraine\u2019s allies, wary of provoking Russia, don\u2019t give it the same protection as they did Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen rockets fly in Israel, the whole world writes about it,\u201d said Amil Nasirov, a 29-year-old singer. \u201cHere, rockets are flying, and we don\u2019t have American bombers that are saving the sky like over Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very stupid; it\u2019s hypocrisy,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd it\u2019s like some devaluation of Ukrainian lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine has begged since the outset of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022 for more tools to close its sky to Russian missiles. But the first Patriot missile systems<\/a> from the United States and Germany \u2014 the only proven defense against ballistic missiles \u2014 did not arrive until the spring of 2023.<\/p>\n

Ukraine also pleaded for F-16 fighter jets<\/a>, which the Biden administration, which must approve any transfers of the American-made planes, long resisted providing them out of concern that Moscow would see it as an escalation.<\/p>\n

It eventually relented, but Ukrainian pilots are still training on the systems and they are not expected to fly in the skies above Ukraine until this summer.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials noted the role that fighter jets played in defending Israel as a sign of their importance in air defense.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the response to the Iranian attack was clear evidence that \u201cthe world has everything necessary to stop any missiles, Shahed drones, and other forms of terror,\u201d referring to the Iranian-made attack drones<\/a> that have been a large part of Russia\u2019s arsenal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole world sees what real defense is. It sees that it is feasible. And the whole world saw that Israel was not alone in this defense \u2014 the threat in the sky was also being eliminated by its allies,\u201d Mr. Zelensky said in his latest nightly address.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s foreign secretary, David Cameron, said<\/a> on Monday that while his country has been one of the staunchest military supporters of Ukraine \u2014 training thousands of troops and providing tanks and other advanced weapons \u2014 Britain could not shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine because it could inflame a wider war in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to avoid an escalation in terms of a wider European war, I think the one thing you do need to avoid is NATO troops directly engaging Russian troops,\u201d Mr. Cameron told Britain\u2019s LBC radio station. \u201cThat would be a danger of escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United States remains the chief supplier of the munitions for Ukraine\u2019s best air defense systems. But the last time Congress approved military aid for Ukraine was in October. In the intervening months, Ukraine\u2019s air defenses have been critically depleted, while Russia has greater success in using air power to advance on the front line, attack Ukraine\u2019s energy grid and inflict more casualties against civilians.<\/p>\n

At least 126 people were killed and 478 more were injured in Russian strikes in March, a 20 percent increase compared with the previous month, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Liubov Sholudko contributed reporting from Kharkiv, Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 <\/span>Marc Santora<\/a><\/span> and Matthew Mpoke Bigg<\/a><\/span> Reporting from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and London<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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