Washington Examiner

As Russia uses its superior airpower to pummel Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure, the United States is taking the unprecedented step of diverting all of its air defense production to Ukraine.

“The United States government has made the difficult but necessary decision to reprioritize near-term planned deliveries of foreign military sales to other countries of, particularly, Patriot and NASAM missiles to go to Ukraine instead,” John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser told reporters in a teleconference briefing yesterday. “We’re going to reprioritize the deliveries of these exports so that those missiles rolling off the production line will now be provided to Ukraine. This will ensure that we’ll be able to provide Ukraine with the missiles they need to maintain their stockpiles at a key moment in the war.”

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