Zelenskyy: We have to double our air defense over the summer

Zelenskyy: We have to double our air defense over the summer

Kyiv  •  UNN

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Ukraine has received additional air defense systems from the United States and intends to double its air defense capabilities over the summer with systems such as the Patriot, Hawk, and IRIS-T, President Zelenskiy announced.

Ukraine is to double its air defense capabilities over the summer. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an address to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, and said that today Ukraine received a separate reinforcement from the United States, the correspondent of UNN reports.

Today, energy challenges are number one. The Government of Ukraine has been given a clear task, namely to develop a package of solutions so that our people, all Ukrainian communities, and Ukrainian companies can get through this situation and ensure a real opportunity to get energy despite the Russian terror

- Zelensky said.

According to him, the first item they are working on is strengthening air defense in Ukraine.

We have strong results. Today, a new system has been launched in Ukraine. I set a task for our team to double our defense in the summer thanks to air defense systems, primarily Patriot, Hawk, IRIS-T, and now we have achieved the result. Even today, we have already received reinforcements separate from the United States. I am confident that the NATO summit will also give us the corresponding powerful results, we must double our air defense during the summer

- Zelensky said.

Addendum

German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jaeger said that the third Patriot system from Germany has already arrived in Ukraine , and its Ukrainian crew has successfully completed training in Germany.