US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Kahl, during a meeting with Ukrainian journalists in Kyiv, said that the United States is thinking about how to help Ukraine shoot down Russian ballistic missiles. One of these hit a high-rise building in the Dnieper the day before. European Truth reports..

“From the very beginning, our military assistance in the context of air defense has been focused on assessing the needs of Ukraine at that time,” Kahl said..

According to him, now the American side is focused on providing the Ukrainian air defense forces with shells for the Hawk and Buk systems, and also mentioned the transfer of Patriot systems by the United States and Germany, which "

" We will continue to monitor this,"

The Pentagon spokesman recalled that on January 20, a meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine will be held at the Ramstein airbase in Germany..

" In second place is ensuring that Ukraine has enough armor to continue to hold the initiative on the battlefield.. But air defense is number one,"

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Recall, earlier it was reported that the consequence of the tragedy in the Dnieper, Mariupol resident Ruslana Babkina, probably lost virtually her entire family - her sister, grandmother and mother, who was released from Russian captivity only in October. The woman's father is still held captive by the Russians.