In this edition of Ukraine This Week, Diana Skaya leads the program, speaking with host Don Arleth, joining from Southwest Florida, about the escalating Middle East crisis and the critical role Ukrainian expertise could play in helping Gulf states counter Shahed drones, highlighting Ukraine’s urgent need for Patriot missile interceptors.
Our main guest, Maria Zolkina, Associate Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, discusses Ukraine’s strategic options in the Gulf and the political tensions with Hungary. Zolkina emphasizes that while Ukraine could share its drone interceptor technology, “for now, the short-term strategy of Ukraine is just to get as many Patriot missiles as possible,” underlining the immediate defensive priorities.
She also explains that President Zelensky’s public criticism of Viktor Orbán went "beyond the line” and may have intensified Hungary’s political retaliation, potentially affecting EU aid and Kyiv’s long-term EU accession prospects.
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