Zelenskyy warns British MPs of drone technology advances and future attacks; UK readies for court battle with Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. What we know on day 1,484
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 201 Ukrainian anti-drone military experts are now in the Middle East to help defend the region against Iranian-designed Shahed drones, and another 34 were “ready to deploy”. “These are military experts, experts who know how to help, how to defend against Shahed drones. Our teams are already in the Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and on the way to Kuwait,” the Ukrainian president told British MPs on Tuesday during an address to the UK parliament.
European nations should prepare for attacks by criminal networks, terror groups and lone attackers as drone technology advances, Zelenskyy warned British MPs. Zelenskyy, in London to meet UK prime minister Keir Starmer, said it was no longer just “a wealthy madman like Putin” who could afford mass attacks, Pippa Crerar reports.
The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, warned Russia stands to gain from higher energy prices and the rerouting of advanced air defence systems from Ukraine to the Middle East. But, she said, Ukraine “remains Europe’s top security priority and attention for Ukraine will not be allowed to fizzle out”. Kallas also pushed back against a call by the Belgian prime minister, Bart De Wever, to normalise relations with Moscow and regain access to cheap Russian energy. “If we just go back to business as usual, we will have more of this – more wars,” Kallas said. “We have seen this before, so we have to be very vigilant and not to actually give Russia what they want because their appetite will only grow.”
