Oleg Davygora22:21, 04/11/24

He noted that the country, which has many of these systems, is today discussing “very important” topics on the domestic agenda.

Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, Mikhail Podolyak, said that all Patriot air defense systems transferred to Ukraine were either from Germany or with the help of Germany.

“And let’s say a big, big thank you to Germany. It changed the entire paradigm of its relations both towards Russia and towards this war. And over the last year it has significantly increased its military assistance packages,” he said in an interview with Channel 24.

According to him, Germany directly understands that it is necessary to further close the sky.

“Germany also cannot do all this on its own, given the number of missiles, the number of drones that Russia uses in this war, and the territory that needs to be protected. This is obvious. And given the number of objects that belong to civilian or critical infrastructure. But Germany I would like to emphasize once again that it has significantly increased its budgets. Today it performs, in my opinion, a key leadership function in closing the skies in Ukraine. But it cannot cope on its own. Just as other countries that have much less ability to provide us with anti-missile defenses will not cope systems. I mean the countries of Northern Europe. They are much smaller in terms of resources, from a military point of view, smaller geographically, and so on,” Podolyak said.

He noted that the country, which has many of these systems, is today discussing “very important” topics on the domestic agenda.

“Some kind of war in Ukraine… This should probably worry someone else? They shouldn’t care. What about the reputation? They will then make several dozen films about Hollywood, how they save humanity. And this will all be easier,” he added.

Additional Patriot for Ukraine

Ukraine needs additional air defense systems and has identified about 100 Patriot batteries around the world that could potentially be made available. However, some countries are resisting even the transfer of one of their systems to Ukraine. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba.

A single Patriot battery costs $1 billion. Last summer, Kyiv received its first batteries. But the three that we currently have are not enough to protect the entire country from powerful air attacks from Russia.

(C)UNIAN 2024