Source link Ukraine is eager to receive the anti-aircraft weapons by any means necessary, its foreign minister has said Ukraine is willing to accept any conditions that Western donors attach to supplies of long-range air defense systems, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on national TV on Monday. A single MIM-104 Patriot battery, which is manufactured […]
Source link Ukraine urgently needs more air defense missiles, but Berlin doesn’t have any to give, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday. Baerbock spoke with reporters after meeting with her Moldovan counterpart, Mihai Popsoi, in Berlin. “Unfortunately, the stocks, especially our own Patriot systems, are now pretty much exhausted,” she said. “Therefore I […]
Source link The Netherlands will deploy a Patriot air defense unit to NATO ally Lithuania as part of a summer joint air defense exercise, the Dutch Defense Ministry announced this week. The several-week-long drill is essential to strengthen air defenses on the eastern flank, the Dutch military claimed in a press release on Thursday. The […]
Source link The US-made air defense systems will be deployed to Lithuania in 2024, its defense chief said The NATO alliance will station US-made Patriot anti-air missile systems in Lithuania, the Baltic country’s defense minister, Arvydas Anusauskas, announced. Lithuania shares a border with Russia’s exclave region of Kaliningrad, as well as with Russia’s ally Belarus. […]
Source link The American-supplied Patriot launcher was used in the January 24 shooting down of the Russian Il-76 transport over Belgorod, the New York Times confirmed on Thursday, citing anonymous US officials. The plane was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners scheduled to be exchanged that afternoon, along with three observers and six crew. There were no […]
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Source link The Russian president has said he does not understand why Kiev would attack an aircraft carrying its own servicemen Kiev’s forces used an air defense system supplied by Washington to attack a Russian aircraft carrying Ukrainian POWs for a pre-scheduled swap, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. The attack, which took place […]
Source link The Western military bloc has agreed to bolster air defenses amid escalating Russian attacks in Ukraine NATO has announced plans to help Germany and several other member nations purchase as many as 1,000 Patriot missiles to bolster European air defenses as Russia ramps up airstrikes against Ukrainian cities. The Western military bloc’s Support […]
Source link Tokyo’s decision to export the munitions to the US has negative consequences for global security, Russia’s foreign ministry said Russia has slammed Japan’s decision to send Patriot PAC-3 anti-aircraft missiles to the US, warning the move will have a negative impact on relations between Moscow and Tokyo, especially if the munitions were to […]