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Italy Foreign Minister Antonio Tayani stressed that Italian weapons cannot be us...

Air Defense: Italy will transmit Ukraine to the second SAMP-T SA

Italy Foreign Minister Antonio Tayani stressed that Italian weapons cannot be used for blows to military facilities in the Russian Federation. In a new military assistance package for Ukraine, Italy provided for the second SAMP-T air defense system. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy in Rai Radio1 Radio1 radio station. "It is known that we will send SAMP-T, which is a tool of air defense, so the tool of protection that Ukraine has asked us.

He said that Italian weapons could not be used for blows to military facilities in the Russian Federation, and also stressed that Italy would not send its soldiers to Ukraine. Thayani explained that the Italian government is preparing "another package" of military assistance, the content of which remains confidential. SAMP-T is an anti-aircraft missile complex created by the Eurosam consortium. It consists of the French Mbda France, Thales and Italian MBDA Italy.

The complex can intercept a wide range of goals, including ballistic and winged missiles. Ukraine received the first SAMP-T system, also known as Mamba, in 2023. We will remind, on May 3 the newspaper La Repubblica reported that Italy will hand over to Ukraine an additional SAMP-T anti-aircraft missile complex within a new military assistance package. On April 12, experts in the French edition of Le Figaro concluded that Ukraine needs missiles for SAMP-T, but their delivery is limited.