By Deutsche Welle
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky has sent a letter to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and to the Congress of that country asking for the pace of missile supplies to be accelerated. anti-ballistic missiles due to the deficit in air defenses, as revealed by the Kyiv Honest publication and later confirmed by Zelensky’s communications advisor, Dmitro Litvin.
“The exact pace of delivery through the PURL program is not sufficient for the reality of the threat we face”the letter says, referring to the program that allows kyiv to receive US weapons paid for with money from its European partners and Canada, which was launched after the Trump administration stopped sending free weapons to Ukraine as soon as it came to power.
“I ask for your help to protect Ukrainian airspace from Russian missiles“Zelensky adds in the letter, which points out that Ukraine depends “almost exclusively on the United States.” when receiving missiles for Patriot anti-ballistic systems.
Ukraine remains particularly prone to Russian ballistic missiles and needs more Patriot systems, as well as PAC-3 missiles – which they use as ammunition – to be able to counter attacks with this type of weaponry.
Zelensky has been making efforts for months to convince his European partners to launch a project that allows them to manufacture their own ballistic missile as soon as possible to stop depending on the US in this area.
Zelensky’s sending of this letter comes days after the Kremlin announced that it will begin bombing command centers of the Ukrainian State in kyiv.
