Monday, 18 Nov 2024

Ukraine calls for Patriot missiles to defend its grid and stop rise in refugees

Ukraine calls for Patriot missiles to defend its grid and stop rise in refugees


Ukraine calls for Patriot missiles to defend its grid and stop rise in refugees
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Ukraine has called for the west to supply Patriot missiles batteries and other modern air defence systems, amid growing concern that attacks by Russia on its electricity grid could prompt a new wave of refugees from the wartorn country.

So far the US has resisted supplying Ukraine with the sophisticated air defence systems, while a recent attempt by Poland to get Germany to deploy a Patriot battery into the country was rejected by Berlin.

The White House emphasised in its readout that the US had authorised a further $275m of military aid on Friday, including rockets for the Himars artillery system. But the Pentagon has shown no sign of approving the export of Patriots, best known for knocking out Iraqi Scud missiles in the first Gulf war.

Overnight, all non-critical infrastructure in the port city of Odesa was without power. Two people were killed in Russian shelling of the recently liberated city of Kherson, and another two died after a rocket attack on the town of Hirnyk in the Donetsk region, in the east of the country.

EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels agreed an extra ¤2bn (£1.7bn) for a fund that has been used to supply Ukraine with weapons, to replenish the European peace facility that was established last year with ¤5bn.

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