Lithuania to allocate funds for Patriot purchase for Ukraine

Lithuania plans to facilitate the purchase of American long-range Patriot air defense systems for Ukraine, allocating up to 30 million euros for this.

This was stated by the country’s Minister of Defense Dovilė Šakalienė after a meeting of the Baltic defense ministers with the head of the Pentagon, Piet Hegseth, LRT reports.

According to Šakaliene, Vilnius expresses its readiness to support the acquisition of weapons produced in the United States, including Patriot systems, which provide strategically important assistance to Ukraine.

“With this contribution, we are also sending a clear signal that we welcome President Trump’s initiative,” she said.

Lithuania is thus joining the efforts of its European allies, who are planning to finance the purchase of modern air defense systems to protect Ukrainian skies from Russian attacks.

By the way, the Patriot air defense system, which Germany plans to pay for transfer to Ukraine, is currently being finalized and will not be ready for at least 6-8 months.

Let us recall that US President Donald Trump announced that the first batches of Patriot anti-aircraft systems have already been sent to partner countries, which will subsequently transfer them to Ukraine.

As reported, the statement by US President Donald Trump about the start of shipments of Patriot systems from Germany to Ukraine was not confirmed in Berlin.

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