Ukrainian Defense Minister: We have a critical shortage of Patriot missiles

Ukraine is in dire need of missiles for Patriot systems to protect itself from Russian ballistics. This was stated today by Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov, RBC-Ukraine reports, quoted by Focus.

''We have a critical shortage of PAC-3 missiles (for Patriot.) for air defense to protect itself from Russian ballistics. We also talked with the president about creating joint consortia with partners for faster production of anti-ballistic missiles, the head of the Ministry of Defense noted.

Fedorov believes that Ukraine has great potential to independently produce anti-ballistic complexes and missiles.

''This requires a separate project - the mathematics there is complicated, it takes more time. But Ukraine definitely needs to develop its own projects,'', the minister is categorical.