US Army personnel have deployed Ukrainian anti-UAV systems at a key US base in Saudi Arabia to protect against Iranian attacks. Earlier, President Donald Trump said that the United States does not need Ukraine’s help.

Reuters reported this, citing its own sources on Wednesday, April 22.

Five unnamed agency interlocutors said that it was the Prince Sultan Air Base, located southeast of the kingdom’s capital. Ukraine’s Sky Map command and control platform was deployed there a few weeks ago.

This system is actively used by Ukraine itself to detect attack drones used by the aggressor country russia to attack the country almost daily.

Reuters sources said that Ukrainian specialists have arrived at the air base in recent weeks. They are training US Army soldiers to work with the Sky Map system.

Analysts note that the United States has previously increased investments in anti-drone technology based on the experience of the russian-Ukrainian war. However, the use of Ukrainian technologies at the Prince Sultan Air Base, located almost 650 kilometers from Iran, emphasizes the vulnerability of the US air and missile defense system.

As the Ukrainian News agency reported, earlier this March, a few weeks after the start of the war against Iran, President Donald Trump said that the United States does not need Ukraine’s help in defending itself against Iranian drones.

Not long before, it became known that Saudi Arabia’s national oil company Saudi Aramco will negotiate with two Ukrainian companies to buy UAV interceptors to protect its infrastructure from Iranian attacks.

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