Not aircraft, but missiles: Patriot supply to other countries will not stop for the sake of Ukraine - FT

According to British journalist Christopher Miller, Washington suspends the supply of Patriot missiles to other countries to accelerate the execution of orders for Ukraine. The Financial Times Journalist Christopher Miller said that the United States had decided to suspend orders from other countries to the Patriot missile countries, not to the installations themselves, as the newspaper wrote earlier. The journalist reported this in his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

This step is taken to send missiles to Ukraine. According to Miller, the official announcement is expected later today. "Apologies. Amendment to this story: Sources are now said that the US has announced the order blocking of Patriot interceptors rather than all systems. Official announcement will be later. The US is suspended Strengthen its air defense against Russian attacks, " - said in a journalist.

On Thursday, June 20, the British edition of FT published a material that the United States was planning to suspend all open orders for Patriot air defense systems and re-sealing missiles until Ukraine receives enough to protect against Russia's air attacks. Unnamed newspaper sources reported that this decision would be announced on Thursday.

It was also noted that President Joe Biden confirmed the obligation to supply additional air defense systems to Ukraine, including Patriot batteries, noting that five countries agreed to send them and others would have to wait until Ukraine receives the necessary systems. We will remind, on June 20 it became known that in Romania approved the transfer of Ukraine another Patriot system.