Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday he will urge allies to fulfill their promises on anti-aircraft missile systems for Ukraine.
“Some Patriot systems have been announced and not yet delivered,” Kuleba told reporters as he arrived at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. “I will urge all partners who have made their commitments to finally deliver these systems.”
Air defense systems—such as the widely used, U.S.-made Patriots or the Italian SAMP/T system—have been a top priority for Western military aid to Ukraine in recent months, with several countries pledging to provide Ukraine with such systems.
But Kuleba said the wait times between announcement and delivery are “sometimes excessively long.”
That hurts Ukrainian military planning, he said. “You can’t calculate what you can count on and what you can’t count on.”
