Ukraine intends to replace its entire Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile system with “modern Western” equipment to ensure protection of cities and military infrastructure from Russian attacks.
“We have to replace all our Soviet air defense systems with modern Western-style systems,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat said on Monday, adding that Kiev was in talks with allies to deploy anti-missile systems of various types. .
Speaking to Ukrainian television, Ignat mentioned the American Patriot defense systems and the NASAMS, SAMP-T and IRIS-T systems that Ukraine received from the United States, France, Italy and Germany, as the equipment that the country intends to possess.” larger numbers.”
kyiv has stepped up diplomatic efforts to receive more Patriot defensive systems and “other similar technologies” ahead of Russian attacks in recent weeks on the capital and other parts of Ukraine.
Russia used precision weapons to destroy a Ukrainian unmanned aerial device (drones) factory in the city of Dnipro.
In this attack, a two-year-old boy was killed when a missile hit a residential area.
According to data from kyiv, Ukraine intercepts practically all the missiles that Russia fires at the capital, but the air defense system remains vulnerable in several regions of the country.
Source: TSF
