Ukraine's defence minister said Wednesday his country has received U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile systems it has long craved and which Kyiv hopes will help shield it from Russian strikes during the war.
Patriot missile launchers acquired from the U.S. are seen deployed in Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 6, 2023. Ukraine's defence minister said Wednesday his country has received U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile systems it has long craved and which Kyiv hopes will help shield it from Russian strikes during"Today, our beautiful Ukrainian sky becomes more secure because Patriot air defence systems have arrived in Ukraine," Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in a tweet.
Reznikov thanked the people of the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, without saying how many systems had been delivered nor when. Ukrainian personnel have been trained on the Patriot battery, which can need as many as 90 troops to operate and maintain it. The Patriot was first deployed by the U.S. in the 1980s. The system costs approximately US$4 million per round and the launchers cost about $10 million each, analysts say. At such a cost, it's not advantageous to use the Patriot to shoot down the far smaller and cheaper Iranian drones that Russia has been buying and using in Ukraine.At least four civilians were killed and 27 others were injured in Ukraine on Tuesday and overnight, the press office of Ukraine's defence ministry reported.
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