{"id":544729,"date":"2025-11-02T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T19:02:17","slug":"zelensky-thanks-germany-for-helping-to-boost-patriot-air-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544729\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky thanks Germany for helping to boost Patriot air defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukraine has managed to expand its Patriot defence system to protect its cities against Russian airstrikes thanks to support from Germany, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I thank Germany and personally Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz for this joint step to protect human lives from Russian terror,&#8221; Zelensky posted on X in Ukrainian, English and German.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;For some time, we have been preparing this reinforcement of our air defense, and now the agreements reached have been implemented,&#8221; he wrote, without specifying the exact nature of Germany&#8217;s support regarding the Patriot batteries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to media reports, Ukraine had 10 of the US-made surface-to-air Patriot missile systems at its disposal as of October, most of them delivered from German stocks or procured with German aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The systems have proven highly effective in protecting Ukraine&#8217;s cities against Russian ballistic missiles, which have been battering the country for almost four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelensky said Ukraine continues to work on its own &#8220;reliable air defense system,&#8221; to reduce the country&#8217;s dependence on Western allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Talks on further joint steps to strengthen air defense are ongoing \u2013 both at the governmental level and directly with the manufacturers of the necessary systems,&#8221; the president wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine has managed to expand its Patriot defence system to protect its cities against Russian airstrikes thanks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2594,2000,299,42649,1945,1824,175121,658],"class_list":{"0":"post-544729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-council","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-patriot-defence-system","15":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115481656872280077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}