Russia launched an airstrike in the early hours of May 8, when 35 Iranian-made Shahed-136 131 drones took off from the Seshcha airfield in the Bryansk region, targeting the Kyiv region of Ukraine. The command of the Ukrainian Air Force announced that the air defense systems of Ukraine and the Defense Forces successfully intercepted all the drones.
However, the command also warned that air defense work is not safe, since "fragments of anti-aircraft missiles and damaged drones can fall to the ground!."”
At the same time, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced that it had delivered the first batch of missile warning radars to Ukraine. These radars were financed by Lithuania ** and transferred to Ukraine with the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. These radars can detect and identify a wide range of air targets, as well as when and where they attack. Israel plans to supply Ukraine with 16 radars, three of which are already in service.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said the radars would help protect against Russian missile attacks. This is also the first time that Israel has explicitly supplied military equipment to Ukraine, and although these radars are not offensive, they also show Israel's support for Ukraine.
Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Kornychuk, revealed that the Ukrainian army is testing a missile warning system provided by Israel, which is a warning system rather than an interception system, which can know the landing point of enemy missiles or drones in advance, so that people can take precautions through alerts or mobile phone prompts in relevant areas, instead of sending the whole country into a panic, "so that we can block only part of the area and not the whole country in the event of an air strike." The system is expected to be launched within two months and installed in Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv.
The missile warning system was developed by Israel on the basis of its "Iron Dome" air defense system, which has the advantage of intercepting only those targets that pose a threat to people and property, and ignoring those that deviate or are harmless, such as rockets or drones, which makes it impossible for extremist groups such as Hamas to interfere with Israel's air defense system by firing a large number of rockets.
For Ukraine, Russia is like a large Hamas, which can also launch a large number of missiles and drones, although Ukraine has enough air defense**, but it lacks an effective early warning system, and only by timely detection can it intercept those low-speed drones with anti-aircraft machine guns and other means. And Israel, as an expert in intercepting rockets and drones, provides these radar systems, which are more valuable for defending Ukraine's airspace than the advanced air defense systems provided by Western countries.
Of course, Israel's strength lies not only in its Iron Dome system, but in its rapid and powerful counterattack ability, which can be launched almost simultaneously with enemy rockets, if there is only an Iron Dome and no means of counterattack, then Israel can only be beaten passively, and the cost of the Iron Dome is much higher than the rockets launched by Hamas. Although Ukraine, with the help of the West, already has a certain strength to fight back, it is not yet comparable to the overwhelming superiority that Israel has over Hamas. This is also why Ukraine** Zelensky in his speech, why he vowed to turn Ukraine into another Israel. In fact, Israel is not more powerful than Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, but it has the strength and speed to fight back against its bad neighbors in order to avoid the spread of war.