The Defense Post:

Germany will give Bratislava two sets of the MANTIS air defense system to protect Slovakia’s eastern border with Ukraine, the Slovak defense ministry said Thursday.

“Slovakia will receive the systems free of charge and permanently,” the ministry spokeswoman Martina Kakascikova told AFP.

“The training of Slovak soldiers to use the system will begin in the coming months,” Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Facebook.

The ministry did not, however, specify the date of the arrival of the system in Slovakia, an EU and NATO member country.

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