18 OCTOBER 2022
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the German IRIS-T air defence system effective and said that the system “showed itself very well.”
Source: President Zelenskyy’s nightly video address
Quote from Zelenskyy: “The German IRIS-T has shown itself very well – it is a really effective system.
We are working with partners to provide even more protection to the Ukrainian sky.”
Previously:
- The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on 14 October that the IRIS-T air defence system, recently delivered from Germany, was already in active use by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the country’s south.
- Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, reported on 12 October that Ukraine received its first IRIS-T air defence system from Germany.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/18/7372512/
As usual with Ukrainska Pravda articles, this is also a short one. But, it’s good to know that at least this German system is functioning well, not like their PH 2000.