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Attacks in southern Ukraine: Buk and C-300 SPRs will not protect Odessa and ports from Russian missiles

In two days of rocket attacks, the Russians destroyed 60 thousand tons of grain in the Black Sea, and in Odessa the grain and oil terminals were damaged. Soviet air defense systems will not cover all the infrastructure of the South, so the help of the West is needed. The Russian army on July 18 and 19 attacked the southern cities of Ukraine several times with rockets and drones. The port infrastructure and grain terminals in Odessa and the Black Sea were injured.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, only in the port of the Black Sea Russian troops destroyed 60 thousand tons of grain, which was to be sent two months ago as part of a grain initiative. In Odessa, Onyx and X-22 rockets were hit in the grain and oil terminal, and tanks were damaged. On July 19, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Odessa could protect SAMP/T or Patriot to be sent to Ukraine. "There are two systems for today.

I agreed with President [France Emmanuel] Macron and Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni when we got samp/t. We will not say where these systems are located now, but they work and work perfectly ", - said the Head of State. Such air defense systems would not only protect the port infrastructure of Odessa, but the equipment is not enough, he added.

Norway on July 12 declared the transfer of two NASAMS air defense systems with two additional fire control centers, two starting installations and spare parts. The event recognizes the sufficiency of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces with air defense. About the deficiency in the arsenal of the Armed Forces of SAMP/T, Patriot, Mamba (equivalent of the American Patriot system, ed.

) And NASAMS, in communication with focus, told the reserve colonel, an expection of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces Vladislav Seleznyov. "The problem in the ratio of the number of strategic objects and Western air defense complexes. Obviously the first. Zelensky said earlier:" Well, we have two Patriot batteries, but it would be better to close the sky. Better yet-hundreds of Western F-16 fighters, "-recalled a military expert.