Germany to provide Ukraine with additional guided missiles for IRIS-T air defense systems - Pistorius
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Germany will provide Ukraine with additional guided missiles for the IRIS-T air defense system as soon as possible. This will include almost 50 such missiles.
This was announced by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius following a meeting of the Contact Group in the Ramstein format, Censor.NET reports citing n-tv.de.
According to him, these missiles were originally intended for the Bundeswehr, but are now being redirected directly from production to Ukraine.
"We first supply (the missiles - ed.) to Ukraine before replenishing our stocks," Pistorius emphasized.
The German Ministry of Defense reports that Ukraine will receive almost 50 missiles for the IRIS-T system.