🇪🇺 Ukraine needs Patriot again. No new commitments from the EU

Kaja Kallas called on EU countries to urgently review their own stocks of Patriot missiles and to give Ukraine even those interceptors whose shelf life is nearing its end. Air defence was one of the central topics of the meeting of EU defence ministers in Ireland. Yet after all the consultations, not a single country announced a new concrete delivery of Patriot missiles to Ukraine.

Already €8.47 billion in defence support has been channelled to Kyiv through the Ukraine Support Loan, while the release of a further more than €6.6 billion through the European Peace Facility is being discussed in parallel. However, the money does not solve the problem of the physical availability of missiles. Pressure is already being exerted on Spain and Greece to share their existing Patriot stocks.


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