“I expect our systems to operate there very soon,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
At the end of February, the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov, stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had not yet received the American Patriot air defense systems.
In January, it became known that the training of the Ukrainian military in the use of Patriot missile defense systems, which is taking place in the US state of Oklahoma, will last several months.
In January, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is producing three times as many air defense missiles as the United States is producing for Patriot systems.