2024-05-29 10:57:55
Madrid: Spain on Monday promised to supply Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with further air defence missiles to counter Russian assaults. Ukraine wants the additional missiles to counter the three,000 bombs dropped by Russia every month because the battle enters its third 12 months. Zelensky mentioned Ukraine wants seven US-made Patriot air defence techniques to stop Russia from putting energy grids and civilian areas in addition to navy targets with devastating glide bombs.
“If we had these fashionable Patriot techniques, (Russian) fighter jets wouldn’t have the ability to fly a lot to drop (glide) bombs on the civilian inhabitants and the navy,” Zelensky mentioned at a press convention within the Spanish capital. Glide bombs are Soviet-era heavy bombs which are dropped from fighter jets.
Zelensky and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez signed a bilateral safety settlement below which Ukraine is to be allotted one billion euros (US$1.1 billion) in navy support by 2024 and 5 billion euros (US$5.4 billion) by 2027. The package deal additionally contains extra Leopard tanks and artillery ammunition.
El Pais newspaper reported earlier on Monday that Spain would decide to sending Ukraine a dozen US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missiles, 19 second-hand German-made Leopard 2A4 tanks, in addition to different Spanish-made weapons comparable to anti-drone gear and ammunition.