How Ukraine is helping the U.S. defend against Iran's drone attacks
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Now that the Shah-head drone threat has arrived in the Middle East, the U.S. and Arab allies formally requested Ukraine's help. |
| 0:07.2 | And this week, Ukrainian troops have arrived to start training. |
| 0:10.9 | Nick Schifrin speaks to a Ukrainian official key to that effort. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm now joined by the advisor on Strategic Affairs to Ukraine's President Volodymyer Zelensky, Alexander, |
| 0:21.0 | Commission. |
| 0:22.0 | Alexander, thanks very much. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:24.0 | Good to see you again. |
| 0:25.0 | Happy to see you again. |
| 0:26.0 | What is Ukraine now providing to the Middle East, now that it is the Middle East |
| 0:31.2 | that is facing the threat of Shahid drones as Ukraine has faced for years? |
| 0:35.8 | Well, this night we had probably the biggest in our history, the record high night of the number of |
| 0:43.3 | shahids and missiles coming in, and that was 700 plus. |
| 0:47.3 | So we're going through really complicated days. |
| 0:50.3 | Even though we got 11 official requests from Middle East countries. |
| 0:55.0 | 11 requests across the region, European and US as well, |
| 0:59.0 | to help with deterring Shahid's in the Middle East. |
| 1:04.0 | We get over 60,000 of Shahids for the last year. |
| 1:09.0 | We learned now to take more than 90% of them down at cheap |
| 1:16.0 | cost in an efficient way and that's probably something we would be happy to share with our |
| 1:22.6 | partners. There's no one way to shoot these drones down. So the Ukrainians that are arriving in the Middle East, will they bring with them the ability |
| 1:30.3 | to shoot down the drones, to bring down the drones electronically? |
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