During a trip to Damascus, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the two countries agreed to work together to provide \u2018more security and opportunities for development for our societies\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 5 Apr 2026<\/span>5 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The leaders of Ukraine and Syria have pledged greater security cooperation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Kyiv offers its military expertise to governments across the Middle East region amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy held talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Sunday, in his first trip to the Syrian capital since former leader Bashar al-Assad was ousted in 2024.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram that the leaders agreed to work together to provide \u201cmore security and opportunities for development for our societies\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a great interest in exchanging military and security experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Since the war began on February 28, Iran and its allied groups have attacked US and Israeli targets, as well as targets in Gulf countries, using a range of missiles and drones.<\/p>\n Ukraine, which has developed expertise in countering drone attacks in its more than four-year war with Russia, has offered its country\u2019s expertise during Zelenskyy\u2019s visits to countries in the region, and has sent teams to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n During his visit to the Gulf states last week, Zelenskyy signed long-term military cooperation deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/p>\n Syria is not known to have any air defences capable of dealing with Iranian drones or missiles.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy also told al-Sharaa that Kyiv was a reliable grain supplier and said the two leaders \u201cdiscussed joint opportunities to strengthen food security across the region\u201d,<\/p>\n According to Turkiye\u2019s Foreign Ministry on X, the country\u2019s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, also met Zelenskyy in Damascus on Sunday, as well as his Syrian counterpart, Asaad al-Shaibani and Ukraine\u2019s Andrii Sybiha.<\/p>\n The meeting with foreign ministers came a day after Zelenskyy visited Turkiye, met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, agreed on \u201cnew steps\u201d in security cooperation, and discussed joint gas infrastructure projects and gasfield developments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n During a trip to Damascus, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the two countries agreed to work together to provide \u2018more security and opportunities for development for our societies\u2019. Published On 5 Apr 20265 Apr 2026 The leaders of Ukraine and Syria have pledged greater security cooperation, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Kyiv offers its military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2010-1.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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