Netherlands to provide Patriot air defense system to Ukraine

June 24, 2024

Euromaidan Press

On 21 June, Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced that the Netherlands and another country would send a Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, as per ANP.

The US-made Patriot systems are Washington’s most advanced air defense weapons. They consist of a radar system and mobile launchers that can fire interceptor missiles at incoming projectiles or aircraft.

Zelenskyy has called them “the most effective air defense system in the world today”, and said they were capable of shooting down all Russian missiles, including ballistic ones.

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