The Daily Populous Sunday September 15th, 2024 morning edition
Authored by pravda.com.ua and submitted by poyekhavshiy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the democratic world should be embarrassed over the fact that Israel’s allies shoot down missiles and drones over the Middle East but have so far failed to approve a decision to shoot down Russian missiles and Iranian drones in Ukraine’s airspace.

Source: President Zelenskyy during the Yalta European Strategy (YES) meeting

Quote from Zelenskyy: "When we hear that Russia has received a supply of new missiles from Iran, that’s the same evil that [our] allies have had to shoot down in the Middle Eastern sky. The missiles’ make might be different, but not Iran’s terrorist intention that lies at the heart of distribution and deployment of these weapons.

If allies can come together to shoot down missiles and drones in the Middle Eastern sky, why have they not made a decision to join forces and shoot down Russian missiles and Iranian Shaheds in the sky over Ukraine? This isn’t done even when missiles and drones literally head for our neighbouring countries.

Whenever we raise this issue with our partners – which we do all the time, by the way – everyone is trying to dodge it, to be honest. They’re afraid of even saying: ‘We’re working on it.’ They’re even afraid of saying those words. This is true.

So far, only Belarus has distinguished itself by shooting down Russian Shaheds. I didn’t think that’s how it would happen… It’s true; I believe that the strong, democratic world should be embarrassed."

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spetcnaz on September 14th, 2024 at 22:22 UTC »

Belarus is in CSTO and in a union state with Russia. They have a unified AA system. Belarus shot it down either by accident or because it was in danger of hitting a Belarusian target. Belarus isn't Switzerland in WW2 where it would shoot down both Nazi and Allied planes.

alex_484 on September 14th, 2024 at 20:51 UTC »

Basically Belarus was unexpected doing this

fcking_schmuck on September 14th, 2024 at 20:35 UTC »

I still remember how russian jet violated turkish airspace, they fucking didn't even hesitate. here