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Zelensky said he had a "very bad feeling" about the future of Ukraine because of Iran.

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On March 27, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky shared with BBC journalists his "very bad feeling" about the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East that could come for his country.

"I have a very bad feeling about the consequences of this (Middle East. — Ed.) of the conflict for the situation in Ukraine. <...> There is a shortage of fuel in the world, and everyone is talking about it today. And this is a problem for us," he said.

The Ukrainian leader stressed that Kiev's priority is supposedly its own protection, for which it needs missiles. Supplies of shells to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), including for air defense systems, as he suggested, may decrease.

The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (UN), Vasily Nebenzia, said four days earlier that Zelensky was shocked by the shift in the attention of the world community from his country to the Middle East. According to him, now Kiev is trying with all its might to regain the lost attention.

A few days earlier, on March 18, the Berliner Zeitung (BZ) newspaper also noted that the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had deteriorated sharply due to the military operation of the United States and Israel against Iran. Then the text noted that the American side had increased pressure on the Ukrainian side and questioned the supply of weapons to it.

Defense Express weapons expert Ivan Kirichevsky reported on March 17 that Ukraine, due to the conflict in the Middle East, may face an acute shortage of PAC-3 missiles for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems in the next 1-3 months.

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