'Risky moment': Ukraine treads tightrope with Gulf arms deals

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani receives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Lusail Palace in Doha on Saturday
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that his country had "undoubtedly changed the geopolitical situation" in the Middle East with a series of decade-long defense agreements with Gulf states being hit with Iranian drones and missiles.The Ukrainian leader has been on a whirlwind tour of the Gulf in recent days — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar — touting what he calls Kyiv's world-leading air defenses.Ukraine has developed a suit of tools to fend off nightly Russian drone attacks, chief among then cheap and highly effective drone-on-drone interceptors.

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