The commander of an air defence unit in Odessa Region, Oleksiy Kovalenko, said in an interview with Le Monde that Ukraine has enough air defence missiles for six months, provided there is no heavy shelling.
Oleksiy Kovalenko stressed that Ukrainian air defence systems “depend on US military aid for 50 per cent, another 25-30 per cent are supplies from the EU”, and the rest are “Soviet complexes”.
“We used their [US – ed.] satellite data to determine the location of ballistic missiles, Oreshnik missiles, and often drones, and without air defence systems, bombing can wipe out all Ukrainian cities from the face of the earth,” Oleksiy Kovalenko said.
We shall remind you that earlier, Carlo Masala, a professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, said that without US military assistance, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ weapons reserves would be enough for six months.
