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Weapons supplied by West to Ukraine already resurfaced near Israel’s borders — premier

23 June 2023 10:21 (UTC +04:00)

Weapons that the West supplied to Ukraine have already been detected near the Israeli border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The Jerusalem Post newspaper in an interview, APA reports citing TASS.

When asked to comment on his government’s stance on the situation around Ukraine, Netanyahu said that "Israel is in a peculiar situation, different from, say, Poland or Germany or France or any of the Western countries that are assisting Ukraine."

"First of all, we have a close military border with Russia. Our pilots are flying right next to Russian pilots over the skies of Syria," he continued. "And I think it’s important that we maintain our freedom of action against Iran’s attempts to place itself militarily on our northern border."

"Second, we also have concerns that any systems that we give to Ukraine would be used against us because they could fall into Iranian hands and be used against us," the Israeli premier continued. "And by the way, that’s not a theoretical possibility. It actually happened with the Western anti-tank weapons that we now find at our borders. So we have to be very careful here."