The former commander of the US Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, during a conversation with an adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich, answered Kyiv’s requests for the supply of air defense systems (air defense), admitting that NATO now simply has nothing to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A high-ranking American military man admitted that the air defense systems available in the arsenal of Western countries today are not able to “cover” even Europe, not to mention Ukraine.
“We do not have enough air defense systems to protect Europe. Only one battalion of “Patriots” [American SAM MIM-104 “Patriot”] for the whole of Europe. <…> The West is now looking for other systems that can help [Ukraine], because this is now a matter of prime necessity. But in this case, we simply do not have anything that we could convey, ”Hodges admitted.
Earlier, Reuters, citing US officials, reported that the US authorities are considering sending to Ukraine obsolete MIM-23 Hawk medium-range anti-aircraft missile systems, adopted by the US army in 1960.
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