Agi: Zelensky: "La guerra in Iran potrebbe metterci in difficoltà"

AGI - Il presidente ucraino, Volodymyr Zelensky, condivide l'attacco di Stati Uniti e Israele contro l'Iran ma ammette che potrebbe mettere in difficoltà il suo Paese nel reperire le armi necessarie per difendersi dalla Russia. "Giusto attaccare gli obiettivi militari iraniani, ma potremmo trovarci in difficoltà nel reperire missili per la difesa dei nostri cieli, perché americani e alleati potrebbero averne bisogno", ha detto in un'intervista esclusiva al Corriere della Sera. "Gli americani e i loro alleati in Medio Oriente potrebbero averne bisogno per difendersi, per esempio dei missili anti-Patriot. Noi ricorriamo al programma Purl, per acquistare le armi Usa con i fondi europei: magari gli americani ne avranno bisogno, come l’anno scorso".
Secondo Zelensky, Putin resta alleato dell’Iran ma si mostra "più debole": "Parla, ma non agisce, dimostra che è un alleato debole degli iraniani. Come del resto lo è stato per la Siria di Bashar Assad: alla fine gli ha dato soltanto asilo in Russia. Forse agli iraniani ha ridato alcune delle armi che aveva ricevuto, magari gli stessi droni Shahed che adesso Mosca produce in due fabbriche su licenza di Teheran".
Putin va combattuto, ma l'attacco all'Iran è diverso
Per il presidente ucraino Putin va combattuto, perché invadendo l’Ucraina viola il diritto internazionale, ma lo stesso non si può dire per l’attacco Usa-Israele contro l’Iran. "No, non lo credo affatto, perché sono due scenari diversi. Ora viene attaccato un regime che vuole costruire l’atomica. L’Ucraina invece è stata invasa con truppe di terra: da 12 anni la Russia cerca di occuparci con la forza. Nello scenario iraniano vedo piuttosto un grave problema con il protrarsi della guerra. Se non si parlano, ci saranno civili morti in numero crescente: sono una società divisa tra sostenitori e oppositori del regime".

Zelensky: "The war in Iran could put us in difficulty."

ZELENSKY - The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, shares the attack by the United States and Israel against Iran but admits that it could put his country in difficulty in obtaining the necessary weapons to defend itself from Russia. “It’s right to attack Iranian military targets, but we could find ourselves in difficulty in obtaining missiles for the defense of our skies, because Americans and allies might need them,” he said in an exclusive interview with Corriere della Sera. “The Americans and their allies in the Middle East might need them, for example, to defend against Patriot missiles. We are relying on the Purl program to purchase US weapons with European funds: perhaps the Americans will need them, as last year.”

According to Zelensky, Putin remains an ally of Iran but is “weaker”: “He speaks, but he doesn’t act, he demonstrates that he is a weak ally of the Iranians. As was the case with Bashar Assad’s Syria: in the end, he only gave it asylum in Russia. Perhaps he has returned to the Iranians some of the weapons they had received, perhaps even the same Shahed drones that Moscow now produces in two factories under license from Tehran.”

Putin must be fought, but the attack on Iran is different

For the Ukrainian president, Putin must be fought because invading Ukraine violates international law, but the same cannot be said for the US-Israeli attack on Iran. “No, I don’t think so at all, because they are two different scenarios. Now a regime that wants to build nuclear weapons is being attacked. Ukraine, on the other hand, was invaded with ground troops: for 12 years Russia has been trying to occupy us by force. In the Iranian scenario, I see rather a serious problem with the prolongation of the war. If they don’t talk to each other, there will be an increasing number of civilian deaths: we are a society divided between supporters and opponents of the regime.”

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https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2026-03-03/iran-guerra-zelensky-35907282/

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