These systems will help protect our cities, civilians and critical infrastructure, the Defense Minister emphasized.
Alliance countries, including the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Romania, have announced that they will provide air defense systems to us. Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced this on the morning of Wednesday, July 10, the press service of the Ministry reports.
In particular, we are talking about additional Patriot batteries, the SAMP-T system and components for their operation.
“These systems will help protect our cities, civilians and critical infrastructure. We thank our allies from the United States, Germany, Romania, the Netherlands and Italy,” the minister said.
It is reported that in the coming months the United States and its allies will transfer dozens of tactical air defense systems to Ukraine: NASAMS, HAWK, IRIS T-SLM, IRIS T-SLS and Gepard.
“This will significantly strengthen our defense. We express special thanks to Canada, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom and other countries for providing these systems and interceptors for more than $1 billion in support of Ukrainian air defense.” , Umerov added.
It was previously reported that the partners pledged Ukraine $1 billion for air defense.
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