The Washington administration plans to persuade certain US allies to hand over some of their Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
"One of the things that the Ukrainians need is more Patriot batteries," Rubio told reporters in Kuala Lumpur. "Hopefully, we will be able to convince some of our NATO partners to provide those Patriot batteries to Ukraine, because there are a number of countries that have them, but no one wants to part with what they have. So perhaps that will change," he said, adding that Germany and Spain were among such countries.
"If, in fact, Ukraine is a priority that so many countries in Europe say it is they should be willing to share the batteries that right now they don’t have the need to use," Rubio added.
"There are other opportunities. I mean countries that have ordered Patriot batteries and that are about to receive shipments of them. It would be great if one of them volunteered to defer that shipment and send it to Ukraine instead," the US secretary of state said.
"So we are looking for creative ways to provide them with these defensive weapons that they would need. That’s not going to help them with the drone attacks, that’s a very different technique that you use to bring those down. But it would help them with some of those missile attacks that we are seeing. Again, these are defensive weapons," Rubio said.
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ReplyDeleteLe président américain Donald Trump a déclaré lundi que les États-Unis enverraient des armes supplémentaires à l’Ukraine, après que la Maison Blanche a annoncé suspendre certaines livraisons la semaine passée.
« Nous allons devoir envoyer plus d’armes, principalement des armes défensives », a déclaré Donald Trump, qui s’est dit « mécontent » à l’égard de Vladimir Poutine.
Germany is prepared to buy Patriot air defense systems from the United States and provide them to Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Rome on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteThe US has never stopped supplying military aid to Ukraine, despite reports of a Pentagon-ordered suspension, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims. He insisted that shipments were only temporarily paused to assess stockpiles.
ReplyDeleteLast week, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed that some arms deliveries, including air defense interceptors and artillery shells, had been paused. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a vocal skeptic of further aid to Kiev, reportedly made the decision without consulting allies or lawmakers. The move raised concern in Europe and drew criticism from Ukrainian officials.
“That decision unfortunately was mischaracterized,” Rubio said at a press conference. “It was a pause pending review on a handful of specific type munitions.” He described the review as “very limited” and aimed at ensuring that US stockpiles remained sufficient for other global obligations.
“The overwhelming majority of military aid that the United States provides Ukraine has never been paused and continues along the same schedules that it's been,” he insisted.