{"id":5148,"date":"2025-01-30T23:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:50:06","slug":"israel-sends-missile-to-ukraine-axios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"Israel sends missile to Ukraine \u2013 Axios"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia had warned against the transfer of Patriot interceptors<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 90 interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems have been sent from Israel to Poland, from where they will be forwarded to Ukraine, Axios has reported, citing three anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

After Israel Defense Forces (IDF) retired their US-supplied Patriots in April 2024, Kiev asked<\/a> for the missiles. Moscow warned West Jerusalem of potential consequences at the time, and the idea seemed to have gone nowhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn recent days,\u201d<\/em> Axios reported this week, several US Air Force C-17 transport planes ferried the missiles from an airbase in southern Israel to the Polish city of Rzeszow, NATO\u2019s logistics hub for supplying Ukraine.<\/p>\n

West Jerusalem informed Moscow of the move and said it was \u201conly returning the Patriot system to the US\u201d<\/em> rather than supplying weapons to Ukraine, Axios reported, citing an anonymous senior Israeli official. The same official claimed this was the same thing as the US transfer of artillery shells from \u201cemergency storage\u201d<\/em> in Israel to Ukraine two years ago.<\/p>\n

Both the Pentagon and the US European Command declined to give Axios a comment for the story. Russia has not officially addressed the matter as of yet.<\/p>\n

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According to Axios, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to take calls from Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky \u201cfor weeks.\u201d<\/em> The situation changed in late September when Netanyahu needed Zelensky\u2019s permission for Hasidic pilgrims to visit Uman, a town south of Kiev where their movement\u2019s founder, Reb Nachman of Bratslav, is buried. Zelensky refused until Netanyahu approved the Patriot transfer, a Ukrainian official told Axios.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Netanyahu acknowledged to Axios that a Patriot system has been \u201creturned to the US,\u201d<\/em> adding that \u201cit is not known to us whether it was delivered to Ukraine.\u201d<\/em> The spokesperson also denied any connection between the Patriots and the Uman pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

The missile delivery is the \u201cmost significant\u201d<\/em> Israeli contribution to Kiev since the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022. West Jerusalem has long insisted on providing only humanitarian aid to Kiev, out of concern about retaliation from Moscow in Syria, or through supplying Iran with sophisticated weapons, according to media.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, warned Israel<\/a> in July that arming Kiev would \u201chave certain political consequences,\u201d<\/em> noting that any weapons sent to Ukraine \u201cwill eventually be destroyed,\u201d<\/em> just like the others.<\/p>\n

Moscow has reduced its military presence in Syria after President Bashar Assad\u2019s government in Damascus collapsed under an offensive by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham militants in December. Israel used the upheaval to destroy much of Syria\u2019s military infrastructure and occupy additional territory in the Golan Heights. Earlier this month, Russia concluded<\/a> a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d<\/em> agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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