Isw told if Ukraine will be able to protect against the offensive of the Russian Federation without the help of a event
The report of April 12 states that officials have expressed their intention to expand the MFC of Ukraine both within the country and abroad. Moreover, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Rustem Umerov said that he called an increase in the domestic production of weapons and military equipment priority for the current year.
At the same time, US State Department representative Matthew Miller stated that providing Ukraine with Western air defense equipment in the short and medium term will be the most important element of Ukraine's ability to support its defense industry. This will reduce Kiev's dependence on assistance from the event. Analysts recalled that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine could not compensate for the lack of air defense systems.
Only weapons of the West, such as Patriot, will allow the country to protect against attacks by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. ISW noted that the US would not need to send large military assistance packages to Ukraine if the country is able to expand its defense industrial potential sufficiently. However, Western air defense systems are crucial in this area.
We will remind, the Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that Ukraine is negotiating 2 batteries Patriot and one SAMP-T battery. According to him, the terms of delivery are influenced by the "political will" of partners. If desired, I could take a couple of weeks. The media also reported that the US has a thousand Patriot settings, 500 of them in the reserve.