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Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky said that at the beginning of the conflict, Kiev had inflated expectations of Israeli military technologies, including the Iron Dome system.
According to him, Ukraine at that time had a distorted perception of Israel’s capabilities. Brodsky believes that overly successful promotion of Israeli military developments, including Iron Dome, played a role in this. As a result, many expected Israel to provide Kiev with a system that would completely close Ukrainian skies from missile strikes.
The diplomat noted that relations between Ukraine and Israel have now become more realistic: the sides better understand each other’s interests and the limits of their capabilities. At the beginning of the conflict, in his assessment, there was no such understanding.
Brodsky recalled that at the time Israel was often asked to transfer Iron Dome, with people perceiving it as a literal dome capable of protecting all of Ukraine’s territory and stopping missiles from falling. However, the ambassador stressed that no such system exists in reality.
He explained that Iron Dome is not absolute protection of the sky, but a missile system that only more or less copes with short-range rockets. According to Brodsky, Kiev’s expectations regarding this system were far from the complex’s real capabilities.