Ukraine war briefing: Small batch of Patriots arrives as Zelenskyy pleads for more
President won’t name supplier and has previously said he ‘does some things I can’t even share’ to obtain vital air defence missiles. What we know on day 1,644 Ukraine has recently received a small number of US-made Patriot interceptors capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He did not say how many had arrived, or who had supplied them. Kyiv also got confirmation
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- 26 Aug 2026, 02:05 UTC
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President won’t name supplier and has previously said he ‘does some things I can’t even share’ to obtain vital air defence missiles. What we know on day 1,644 Ukraine has recently received a small number of US-made Patriot interceptors capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He did not say how many had arrived, or who had supplied them. Kyiv also got confirmation
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Ukraine war briefing: Small batch of Patriots arrives as Zelenskyy pleads for more
President won’t name supplier and has previously said he ‘does some things I can’t even share’ to obtain vital air defence missiles. What we know on day 1,644 Ukraine has recently received a small number of US-made Patriot interceptors capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He did not say how many had arrived, or who had supplied them. Kyiv also got confirmation
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