(ANSA-AFP) - FRANKFURT, 13 APR - Germany will send an
additional Patriot air defence system to Ukraine to bolster its
hard-pressed military and help it fend off increased Russian
aerial attacks, Berlin said Saturday.
"Russian terror against Ukrainian cities and the country's
infrastructure is causing immeasurable suffering," said German
Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, announcing the move. "It is
jeopardising people's energy supply and destroying the
operational readiness of the Ukrainian armed forces." It will be
the third Patriot system that Berlin has supplied to Kyiv, with
the defence ministry saying the decision was taken at the
request of the Ukrainian government and in coordination with
allies. (ANSA-AFP).
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