Seventeen Patriot from Trump: Do Ukraine really receive additional air defense systems

The condition for providing new weapons was that European countries will compensate for the US weapons expenditures for Ukraine.    During a conversation at the White House, Trump also stressed the need for new sanctions. NATO Secretary General noted that Trump was annoyed with a recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Rutte called on world leaders who cooperate with Moscow to influence Putin to achieve a peace agreement before the introduction of secondary duties promised by Trump. Before that, Trump accused Putin of breach of arrangements. In his comment, military expert Pavel Pavel Pavlo expressed a number of thoughts on the prospects for the transfer of Patrioot and other weapons to Ukraine with Ukraine's air defense systems within the EU assistance package.

According to him, there is currently considerable uncertainty about the details of this assistance, including the terms of transmission, the number of systems and their origin. He stressed that information about volumes and sources of supply remains blurred, which complicates the assessment of real prospects. The people's skeptical reports on the possibility of transmitting a large number of Patriot systems.

"Donald Trump calls some wild figure - 17 Patriot systems, but I do not believe absolutely. It is more likely that the allies will be given three systems. But it is not clear where they will be supplied.

This system takes over a year, and the turn of such systems and their analogues, for example, the South Korean L-SAM system is stretched for 5-10 years Defense, the folklore also composed of other elements of the help of the help of artillery shells, which are likely to be a small range, such as HIMARS.

The veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the reserve major Alexei Hetman expressed skepticism about the possibility of supplying Ukraine 17 anti-aircraft missile complexes, which were discussed in information messages. Thus, for 17 complexes, it would take about 500 missiles that look unrealistic, given the previous reports of supply only 10 missiles for Patriot systems, "Hetman emphasized. Speaking of air defense, the hetman added that it was necessary to use the default.