Ukraine asks the West for advanced Patriot anti-aircraft missiles in the face of Russian attacks

The Prime Minister of Ukraine He called for more Patriot missile batteries and other high-tech air defense systems to counter Russian attacks, while more shelling was reported in the eastern regions where Russian forces are trying to advance.

The first Minister Denys Shmyhal told French broadcaster LCI that Russia wants to flood Europe with Ukrainian refugeesand that is why it is attacking infrastructure in order to leave millions of people without water or electricity in the middle of the winter cold.

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with missiles patriot, Ukraine has a more advanced air defense system tested by the West amid its attempts to fend off Russian airstrikes. So far, no country has offered him that, although Germany has given missiles patriot to neighboring Poland, an ally of the military alliance NATO.

Millions of Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24., and it is feared that more will flee during the winter. Thousands of people have been killed and scores of Ukrainian cities and towns have been reduced to smithereens in nine months of Russian attacks.

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Ukraine also needs more modern tanks and artillery shellsShmyhal said in an interview broadcast on Sunday night before a meeting in Paris to raise more aid for his country. The more than 1,000 Russian attacks on infrastructure since October have been designed “to provoke another wave of migration to Europe,” he said.

The Kremlin has said the attacks on the Ukrainian energy supply system are in retaliation for what Moscow says was a Kiev-organized attack on a Russian bridge on the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.

the ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone with the US president Joe Biden on Sunday. Biden sought to “emphasize continued U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense as Russia continues its assaults on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.” Ukrainethe White House said.

Repeated Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure have left millions of people without electricity, water or heat. Russian drone attacks near the port of Odessa last weekend they destroyed several power facilities and left all customers without power except for hospitals, maternity wards, steam plants and pumping stations.

Source: Elcomercio

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