9 minutes agoZelensky heads to NATO summit with an urgent request for Ukraine: More Air Defense
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(2 hours ago)Ukraine's president, Voldymyr Zelensky, even though his country is not a member of NATO, has become a regular participant in coalition summits, while Ukraine continues to be protected by Russian aggression.
Upon arriving in Ankara on Tuesday, Zelensky said his main objective at the summit is to secure more air defence systems for Ukraine.
“We will continue to work on strengthening Ukraine's air defence. New systems, rockets for them and production licenses issue all these are our top priority”, he wrote on X.
Over the past few months, Ukraine has largely managed to repel Russian massive air strikes against its cities and save lives, bringing down Russian drones and missiles through a combination of advanced technology, military tactics and weapons supplied by the West.
However, this situation has changed this month. A Russian attack on Kiev last week killed 30 people, while just four days later another attack on the Ukrainian capital left 19 people dead.
The high number of victims is believed to be the result of the gross lack of Patriot missiles, the only air defence systems capable of bringing down this kind of missiles.
Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials have indicated that the country is facing a “critical threat” of the Patriot missile. Ukraine's Defence Ministry announced last week that it has sent letters to almost 40 countries, urging them to supply Patriot missiles to their existing reserves as soon as possible in return for future remittances already contracted for Ukraine, writes CNNPeriscope broadcast.
