{"id":35733,"date":"2026-04-21T08:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/35733\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:51:47","slug":"iran-war-could-hurt-ukraine-kallas-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/35733\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war could hurt Ukraine, Kallas warns\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has been attacking its neighbors with drones and missiles in retaliation against U.S.-Israeli strikes\u00a0on the country.\u00a0Gulf states such as the United Arab Emirates\u00a0have been burning through their\u00a0air defense stocks\u00a0in a bid\u00a0to\u00a0repel the bombardment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kallas also warned that rising oil prices\u00a0because of the war\u00a0could\u00a0benefit\u00a0Moscow. \u201cWhen the oil price goes up, it actually benefits Russia to fund its war,\u201d she said. Global oil prices have surged to their highest level since July last year following the\u00a0Washington-led\u00a0strikes on Tehran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why we have to really push through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-targets-russian-energy-banks-goods-and-services-in-latest-sanctions-package\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-targets-russian-energy-banks-goods-and-services-in-latest-sanctions-package\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maritime services ban<\/a> [so] we can really curtail the shadow fleet, then the oil revenues that Russia has to fund this war,\u201d Kallas added, referring to the EU\u2019s proposed ban on any services that support Russia&#8217;s seaborne crude oil exports, part of its yet-to-be-approved 20th\u00a0sanctions package.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine could use its expertise\u00a0in fending off Russian drones and missiles to help the Gulf countries \u201cfight back\u201d against Iran, Kallas suggested.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see the same drones that are attacking Kyiv every\u00a0day are\u00a0attacking the Middle East,\u201d she said. \u201cUkraine can help the Gulf countries because they have developed drone interceptors and drone protection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That issue will\u00a0come\u00a0up at Thursday\u2019s virtual meeting with Gulf foreign ministers, she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has been attacking its neighbors with drones and missiles in retaliation against U.S.-Israeli strikes\u00a0on the country.\u00a0Gulf states&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[2705,399,1615,2056,34,442,2436,303,3441,2061,329,1434,2289,2064,330,17,185,347],"class_list":{"0":"post-35733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kaja-kallas","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-kaja-kallas","14":"tag-maritime","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-missiles","17":"tag-oil","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-sanctions","20":"tag-services","21":"tag-supply-chains","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-war","25":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116441850970915971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}