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Zelensky confirms the delivery of another Patriot air defense system from Germany
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on April 13, after a conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, confirmed in his Telegram channel that Germany will transfer to Ukraine another Patriot air defense system and missiles to complement existing systems. “I am grateful to the Chancellor for the decision to supply another additional Patriot system to Ukraine and missiles to the existing air defense systems,” wrote the head of the Kiev regime. Zelensky also called on the leaders of other Western countries to follow Scholz’s example. As Regnum reported, on April 13, the German television channel NTV, citing the German Ministry of Defense, reported that Germany plans to provide Ukraine with another Patriot system. In total, since the beginning of the Northern Military District, Berlin has provided Kyiv with two such air defense systems. A day earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the Kiev regime was negotiating with Western countries to allocate two Patriot batteries and one SAMP-T to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. During an interview with the Politico newspaper, Kuleba, complaining about the lack of air defense systems in Ukraine, demanded to give Kiev “damn Patriot.” Earlier it was also reported that Polish President Andrzej Duda, at a joint press conference with the head of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda and Zelensky, refused to transfer the Patriot air defense system to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Bild military expert Julian Röpke said on April 11 that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had run out of missiles for Patriot, Iris-T and most other air defense systems. At the same time, Western countries have hundreds of systems and thousands of missiles in their warehouses, Röpke noted. Posted by: badanov 2024-04-14 |
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