Incident involving Zelenskyy’s aircraft: Ireland sees no failure by its security services
Photo: Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Getty Images)
The incident involving drones that trailed the aircraft of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Ireland was not a failure of the country’s security services, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said in an interview with The Journal.
According to the Irish prime minister, the country’s security services carried out a successful operation to ensure the safety of the Ukrainian president.
"I think that this is getting lost and there’s a lot of noise around security issues all the time and there is always an attempt to portray Ireland as a sort of a basket case. I think our intelligence service works well, has very good relationships across the world and is very useful in certain scenarios," Martin said.
Incident involving Zelenskyy’s aircraft
On December 2, four unidentified drones followed the flight path of the aircraft of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Dublin, Ireland.
According to media reports, these were military-type drones. It is believed that someone was attempting to disrupt the Ukrainian head of state’s visit to Ireland in this way.
After that, the drones were seen circling over one of Ireland’s naval vessels, which had been deployed to the Irish Sea. Ireland’s police launched an investigation into the incident after the country’s Defence Forces reported it to law enforcement.
Earlier, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the drone incident in Dublin during Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit could be linked to the European Union’s active discussions on the fate of Russian assets.
