Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday said he will urge allies to make good on promises of air-defence missile systems for Ukraine.
“Some Patriot systems were announced and not delivered yet,” Kuleba told reporters as he arrived at an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels. “I will urge all partners who have made their pledges to finally deliver these systems.”
Air-defence systems – such as the widely-used, US-made Patriots or the Italian SAMP/T system – have been a top priority for Western military aid to Ukraine in recent months. Several countries have promised to supply Ukraine with such systems.
But Kuleba said the waiting times between announcement and delivery are “sometimes excessively long.”
That hurts Ukrainian military planning, he said. “You cannot calculate what you can count on and what you cannot count on.”
