President Volodymyr Zalenskyy said he is in talks with European countries to jointly develop a high-tech air defense system like the Patriot, which will shoot down ballistic missiles.
President Volodymyr Zalenskyy said he is in talks with European countries to jointly develop a high-tech air defense system like the Patriot, which will shoot down ballistic missiles.
He spoke about this on the air of the «United Telethon».
«We must have a European anti-ballistic system. We are talking to several states, we are working in this direction. We need to make our anti-ballistic system in a year,» he announced a tight deadline for completing this task, calling it «complex, but realistic.»
Zelensky added that he has already held negotiations on this issue with key European states.
«We haven’t talked to everyone yet, but I have talked to the key countries that I wanted to talk to about this,» he explained.
According to the president, this step is necessary in order not to depend on the supply of American Patriot air defense systems and missiles for them.
The President also explained that agreements were reached in Germany to supply Patriot missiles to Ukraine, but these agreements depend on the production of missiles and their implementation will not be quick.
Recall that earlier Zelensky «highlighted» a new anti-aircraft missile: a previously unknown anti-aircraft munition appeared in the background in the head of state’s video address on the occasion of the professional holiday of workers of the defense-industrial complex.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian company Fire Point is completing testing its own new ballistics with a range of up to 850 km.
