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The US State Department approved the potential sale of 500 Patriot air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine on Friday, according to a department release.

Kyiv uses the defensive weapons to blunt Russia’s continuous ballistic missile strikes on its territory, but Ukraine’s supply ran dry earlier this month, CNN previously reported. The deal is for the PAC-3 MSE variant of the Patriot — the most advanced version currently in service — that is one of the few weapons capable of shooting down incoming ballistic missiles.

Notably, the purchase is not subsidized or financed by the US, according to the release. Instead, Ukraine is covering the estimated $2.1 billion purchase with funds from Canada, Germany and Norway in addition to a loan from the European Union, the State Department said.

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[-] chleb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Until they deliver to Ukraine, there will be destruction or surrender in Ukraine

[-] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Looks like MAGAts won't be getting their $5,000 check after all. Who could've guessed.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Deliverable "in a few years".

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

So I guess the reason they didn't allow European countries to transfer Patriot missiles they had in stock to Ukraine was that they wanted Ukraine to buy some more directly? They wanted to double dip. Disgusting.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I mean, clearly at some point in the last week a bribe(s) of some kind has happened.

[-] pmk@piefed.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

The quicker we can reduce dependency on the US the better.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

Do they even have the stock?

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 10 points 18 hours ago

Not really ethical for the US to be making so much money from Europe for this. Did Trump and putin plan this and they're just killing Ukrainians so Trump can get rich?

[-] chleb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

💯. Oligarchs see ordinary people as "things" like a pen, a door, a cup

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Literally this.

[-] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

Then Europe should develop a new, sovereign ballistic missile defense system. Until then, they have no option but to buy whatever is available now.

[-] Duhtocqueville@ttrpg.network -2 points 7 hours ago

Russia attacking Ukraine is definitely more of a European issue than a US one. And if the NATO countries had just spent 4% of their GDP on defense as agreed they wouldn’t need to be complaining now.

Or if you just let Ikraine into NATO or the EU.

Basically this is a war of gross European neglect and complaining about anyone other than yourself is candidly offensive.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Chill Vance. I don't need to hear you being a manipulative liar, thanks though.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

The Russian diesel was just a profit sharing deal.

[-] FrogCat@piefed.social 0 points 11 hours ago

Sure it would be better if America was doing more to support Ukraine. But I think it's good news that they are at least allowing Ukraine to have these Patriots, since they are important for Ukraine.

I'm not trying to give too much credit to the US of course. Trump's administration is terrible. I'm just saying it could have been worse, if the US refused to allow Ukraine to have any Patriots.

[-] chleb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It will be too late. Russia uses this weakness very well and consistently attacking.

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