According to the interlocutors, the head of the White House did not take on any obligations.
The representative of the German government, Stefan Cornelius, noted that Mertz is conducting intensive negotiations on the supply of air defense systems to Ukraine.
According to the media reports, the Minister of Defense of Germany Boris Pistorius in May sent the Pentagon the first request regarding whether the United States will supply Ukraine with additional Patriot anti -aircraft missile systems that Germany will acquire. But even during the brief personal meetings on the sidelines of the Summit of NATO defense ministers in early June in Brussels and at the NATO summit in the Hague, the head of the Pentagon Pit Hegset did not answer this proposal of Pistorius.
Later, the United States announced a temporary stop of supply of certain weapons to Ukraine, which was promised to transfer the administration of the previous US President Joe Biden. Washington allegedly explained this with his limited reserves. The publication drew attention to the fact that the solution concerns not only high -precision artillery shells and missile systems, but also anti -aircraft missiles.
According to the representative of the German Ministry of Defense, the Pistorus will visit Washington in mid -July to meet with the hash. He will again raise the theme of air defense for Ukraine, and also continue his initiative in the field of air defense as part of the support of Ukraine by the “Big Seven”. Last year, the countries managed to collect about € 1 billion for the purchase of ammunition and systems.
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Partners began to transfer to Ukraine Patriot in 2023. This The complex, in particular, is able to bring down the dagger aeroballistic missiles, which in the aggressor country of Russia are called hypersonic. Officially, the US (two complexes), Germany (three) and Romania reported on the transfer of Patriot complexes. The Netherlands handed over to Ukraine components to the air defense system, in particular the radar.
March 11, 2025, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskythat Ukraine seeks to negotiate with the United States on the purchase of weapons, in particular Patriot air defense systems.
In May US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Washington encourages the allies to transfer to Ukraine Patriot, but countries “do not want to”.
At the G7 summit in Canada on June 15-17, the President of Ukraine planned to negotiate with Trump on the likely acquisition of new parties of weapons. However, the American president left the summit on June 16 ahead of schedule. Later, the president’s office said that Ukraine received “positive signals”, but “this work loves silence”.
