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The implementation of Sky Shield would be an important component of Europe's stepping up, guaranteeing Ukraine's security effectively and efficiently."
Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Lithuanian foreign minister, said in a statement I joined the call for SkyShield—a European-led air protection plan for Ukraine. Time for Europe to step up and secure Ukraine's skies from Russian missiles and drones."
Rihards Kols, Latvian MEP, on X, formerly Twitter I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say.”
Trump also referred to a recent decision to provide Israel with fresh funding, posting The Tranche 1s remain a very creditable air defence aircraft
Last night, Armed Forces Minister Mark Francois, who previously campaigned to save the aircraft, said The US is our strongest ally. The idea that they might stop us using weapons or systems is laughable. It just isn’t going to happen.”
We are increasing the number of Sky Sabre units to nine, which is a significant increase, so we are not waiting for the outcome of the defence review.”
The noble Lord raises very important points, but some of them will have to wait for the outcome of the defence review.”
Our weakness is in air-defense missiles – the Patriots,
said Yegor Firsov, the chief sergeant of a drone strike platoon The Patriots are the headline item, but beyond that it’s what we call the ‘invisible supplies,
Mark Geleotti, a leading Russia analyst, told CNN We can destroy all other means of Russia’s terrorization of Ukraine with what we have in Ukraine, manufactured here or received from our partners,
The US holds the licensing to the Patriot missile systems, and also the missile production for them, which makes it very challenging for multiple European countries to recreate these,
said Kateryna Stepanenko, the Russia deputy team lead and analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a US-based conflict monitor This is the only system capable of dealing with Russian ballistic missiles. The risk relates to the provision of Patriots, both in terms of repairs, maintenance and ammunition to protect Ukraine from ballistic missiles,
the country’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Tuesday If you think about those M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley armored fighting vehicles, which had been very useful on the front line, if the Ukrainians run out of stocks or spare parts, then even when something relatively minor breaks down – and these things do need a lot of maintenance and break down a lot – then they’ll actually have to be pulled out of the line,
Even we, the military, would like to have our families, our rear, protected as much as possible when we are serving on the frontline,
Russian forces will likely attempt to take advantage of the pause in US aid in order to make further gains in Ukraine’s east and south in order to justify their territorial claims to the entirety of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts,
Ukraine will continue to fight with the materiel it currently has, with the materiel European partners have given and will continue to provide, and with the materiel Ukraine itself produces. The Trump administration's aid pause will detrimentally impact Ukraine's ability to defend itself and pursue offensive operations at its current rate, but it will not collapse the front entirely in the coming months,
Private weapons contracts between Ukraine and US companies – many of which Ukraine has already paid for – will likely facilitate at least a small flow of arms deliveries to Ukraine 'for at least the next several years',
If Russia succeeds, the threat of conducting assault actions, reconnaissance missions, and further reducing the range of Russia’s artillery and multiple launch rocket systems targeting our infrastructure will significantly increase,
We’re as ready to keep fighting as we used to. Nothing has changed but our perception of America. We used to see the United States as a symbol of freedom and hope, now we see it turned into Russia No. 2,
Vitaly, a Ukrainian soldier serving in Russia’s Kursk region, told POLITICO The Russians understand our capabilities and where our air defense systems are located, and they attempt to bypass them. Additionally, they select priority targets whose destruction will have the greatest effect,
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