“President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine has a shortage of missiles for individual air defense systems and is discussing options for solving this problem with partners.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Illustrative photo: Getty Images Source: Zelensky at a press conference with journalists
Details: According to the president, he does not want to publicly specify which missiles are in question, but he emphasized that certain types of ammunition are missing for some air defense systems.
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Direct speech: “There are some systems that do not have some types of missiles. I spoke with my partners today that we can discuss long and hard, but every day flies by. It flies somewhere every minute. It must be beaten. And that’s why partners either give licenses, or give rockets, or help with money, we buy it ourselves. That is, there are no other ways out.”
Details: Zelenskyi also stated that Russia is setting record budgets not for peace, but for war against Ukraine, which, in his opinion, creates a long-term threat not only for Ukraine, but also for other countries.
He added that the partners’ decision to support Ukraine is an important indicator of how much they are aware of the scale of this threat.
Direct speech: “This could be a new stage of the war. I don’t want to scare anyone. It’s just that everyone needs to be ready. And the last thesis: does Europe understand? This is a very important catalyst. Today’s decision is the answer to whether our partners understand us or not. We’ll see.”
What happened before:
- On the night of December 18, Russia attacked with 82 attack drones, air defense neutralized 63 of them, there were hits in 12 locations.
- December 16Minister of Defense of Great Britain, John Geely, at the opening of the meeting of the contact group on the defense of Ukraine (Ramstein format), announced the largest one-year investment of 600 million pounds to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense.
- On September 11, Ukraine and Britain signed an agreement on the production of Ukrainian interceptor drones.
- Earlier, the British Ministry of Defense reported that the first joint project will be a new advanced air defense interceptor drone called Project Octopus.