By Eliza Popova
"NATO countries can provide less than 5% of air defense agents to protect Member States in Central and Eastern Europe from a full-scale attack," the material reads. One of NATO's high -ranking diplomats said that the Alliance has no ability to defend themselves from rockets and air strikes. "Air defense is one of the biggest holes we have. We cannot deny that," said the Financial Times another NATO diplomat.
In addition, according to the newspaper, in the last week letter of the Prime Ministers of Greece and Poland, Kiriakos Michotakis and Donald Tusk, it was said that air defense is "important vulnerability in our safety. " Such fears have intensified due to the large -scale use of UAVs against Ukraine, which can overcome long distances.
In particular, in February 2022, the United States launched a Patriot air defense system to protect the airport in southern Poland, which became the Western Weapon Delivery Center to Ukraine. But officials say that the members of the Alliance had such systems, and their ability to use outside their own territories is seriously limited. One of FT's interlocutors said that new NATO defense plans, which made in 2023, significantly increase air defense requirements for quantity and readiness.
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