‘WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?’: Monday it was the New York Times’s turn to get an “exclusive” sit-down interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, following interviews in recent days with Reuters and Agence France-Presse. Zelensky was described as “animated” as he expressed growing frustration that Western allies were not doing more to support Ukraine to repel Russian forces, in particular by shooting down Russian missiles in flight over Ukraine, as the United States did when Iran attacked Israel last month. 

“I asked, can we first shoot down, from the territory of a NATO country, from the territory of our neighbors, the missiles flying towards our energy facilities without crossing into Ukraine’s airspace?” Zelensky said in a wide-ranging 50-minute interview. “Technically, all of this is possible. Shooting down Russian missiles already in Ukrainian territory from their planes. This is what we saw in Israel.”