“I don’t want to complain, we are grateful to the United States for having given us. But when children and adults die under shelling, I don’t understand why we can’t agree on additional Patriot systems. Moreover, there was such an agreement at the NATO Summit in Washington and we never received those additional Patriot systems. I respect the US selection, but when the United States did not give us such systems, we are ready for any The format is not in money – and some European partners are ready to help financially so that we can get these expensive systems. He said.
Zelensky said that in conversations with US President Donald Trump offered to buy Patriot systems.
“I said very clearly to President Trump what we can do. There is a Patriot system and you have a lot of them. And you have production. There are several steps how to protect Ukraine. Step number one. One system costs $ 1.5 billion, we are ready to buy, and we need at least 10 systems to close some cities. Only civilian centers of cities are as much as possible, where it is $ 15 billion. We are ready to pay these 15 bills of these 15 billion. We will pay money and everything, ”the president said.
The second option, which Zelensky, according to him, addressed not only the Trump administration, but also the administration of the previous US President Joe Biden – licenses for the production of Patriot systems and missiles for these systems.
“We wanted to pay for this, have licenses, and then already understand how and in what time we will be able to fully build a system for the closure of our sky. That is, there are different options,” he suggested.
Zelensky added that in a number of countries there are Patriot systems belonging to the United States that Ukraine could rent.
