{"id":657,"date":"2026-05-11T19:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:50:48","slug":"zelenskiy-holds-call-with-uae-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskiy holds call with UAE counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday discussed with the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan UAE\u2019s assistance in bringing Ukrainians back from Russian captivity and the war in Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the wake of the Iran war, Ukraine has offered its battle-tested expertise in countering drones to the UAE and a handful of other Middle Eastern countries. Kyiv and the UAE struck a 10-year defence cooperation deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was glad to hear that Ukrainian expertise is truly helping to build reliable protection for lives. We discussed continuing this work,\u201d Zelenskiy said on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2053864146253291522\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2053864146253291522\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful to the UAE that our agreements are being implemented on the basis of reciprocity and that Ukraine is also receiving the support it needs, including in the energy sector,\u201d Zelenskiy added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday discussed with the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan UAE\u2019s assistance in bringing Ukrainians back from Russian captivity and the war in Iran. Since the start of the wake of the Iran war, Ukraine has offered its battle-tested expertise in countering drones to the UAE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}