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Germany says third donated Patriot system now in Ukraine

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AFP :
Germany said Friday that the latest Patriot air defence system it supplied to Kyiv is now in Ukraine, as it struggles to hold off a blistering Russian strike campaign.
“The third Patriot air defence system from Germany has already arrived in Ukraine,” Martin Jaeger, German Ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on X, after Berlin announced in April it would supply the system to Kyiv.
Ukraine has been urgently calling on its Western backers to send more air defences, with emphasis on the US-designed Patriot systems that are capable of shooting down Russian hypersonic missiles.
More than two years into the Russian invasion, missile barrages and drone attacks have crippled Ukraine’s electricity generation capacity and forced Kyiv to impose scheduled power outages and import supplies from the European Union.
The arrival of the system follows pledges from Germany in April to send the additional Patriot battery.

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