Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has discussed Iranian strikes with United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Reuters reports.

“We discussed how we can help in this situation and support the protection of lives. It was agreed that our teams will work on this,” Reuters adds, quoting Zelensky’s post on X after a call with the UAE leader.

After the call with al-Thani, Zelensky has said that Ukrainian and Qatari teams would remain in contact to “determine how we can jointly provide greater protection to people”.

Kyiv officials have said that Ukraine would be ready to send drone specialists to the Middle East to help down Iranian drones if its partners help to broker a ceasefire in its war with Russia.