The Netherlands will transfer two launchers of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system to Ukraine, according to the Dutch publication NOS, citing a letter from the Minister of Defense of the Netherlands, Kaisa Ollongren, to the House of Representatives.. Installations will be equipped with missiles.

To master the Patriot air defense system, 200 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will arrive, with whom 65 Dutch instructors will work.

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As previously reported, Ukrainian military personnel will be able to start using Patriot air defense systems no earlier than the end of spring 2023.. Jordan Cohen, an analyst at the Cato Research Institute, voiced this opinion in an interview with Newsweek magazine..

In turn, retired US Army General Mark Hertling told CNN that the scope of the Patriot is very limited.. " You place them to protect the most strategically important objects, for example, a city like Kyiv. If someone believes that this system will cover the 500-mile border between Ukraine and Russia, then he simply does not understand how it works,"