President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs additional US Patriot interceptor missiles to withstand winter as Russia continues ballistic missile attacks. In comments to CNN cited by multiple outlets, he says Ukraine currently has access to only about 1% of the relevant US stockpile.
Zelenskyy argues that obtaining roughly 5% of the US Patriot missiles would help Ukraine “get through winter,” while a larger share—about 10%—would allow Ukraine to stop all Russian ballistic missiles, according to the reports. Euronews and Kyiv Post both frame his remarks around an urgent gap between air-defence needs and the interceptors Ukraine is receiving from the United States.
The outlets focus on the same figures and the same message: Russia’s attacks are outpacing Ukraine’s air-defence capacity, and Zelenskyy is seeking a faster increase in Patriot deliveries from Washington during the winter period.
