Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday, March 4, discussing the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region.
Zelensky said Ukraine is closely monitoring developments in the region and has taken a principled stance from the start.
He also expressed Ukraine’s support and solidarity with the people of Jordan and the broader region.
“It is important to coordinate together both in Europe and in the Middle East for the sake of security,” Zelensky said.
The Ukrainian president warned that missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones “must not destroy lives” and stressed the importance of preventing further expansion of the war.
The United States and Israel, on Saturday, unleashed a massive air bombardment campaign against Iran, primarily targeting Iran’s national leadership and major Iranian war-making capacity.
Some of the strikes sought to kill top-level Iranian officials, most others attempted to smash major Iranian weapons like warships, weapons stores and long-range missile launchers. The overall objective was to smash the Iranian capacity to resist militarily. An immediate, shorter-term objective was to establish total air dominance over Iran so that it would be easier for more massed strikes to hit whatever was still in one piece in later attacks, so that all resistance might be quickly crushed.