{"id":1401573,"date":"2026-06-04T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-is-counting-on-additional-patriot-missiles-from-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:30:58","slug":"ukraine-is-counting-on-additional-patriot-missiles-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-is-counting-on-additional-patriot-missiles-from-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine is counting on additional Patriot missiles from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine has asked Germany to transfer additional missiles for Patriot systems amid increasing Russian air attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-04\/kyiv-seeks-patriot-missiles-from-germany-to-boost-air-defenses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> this, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p> According to the publication, Kyiv wants to receive the missiles this year. In exchange, Ukraine offers to return the interceptors to Germany later, when new batches are produced.<\/p>\n<p> Bloomberg sources say the German government has not yet made a final decision, but discussions are ongoing and possible agreements could be announced at the NATO summit in July.<\/p>\n<p> The need for Patriot missiles remains acute due to regular Russian ballistic missile strikes. At the same time, finding additional interceptors is becoming increasingly difficult as European countries&#8217; stockpiles are limited.<\/p>\n<p> According to Bloomberg, Germany currently has the greatest potential among EU countries for additional supplies of Patriot missiles to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-poprosyv-u-ssha-litsenzii-na-vyrobnytstvo-raket-patriot\/\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to the United States to grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missiles.<\/a> According to him, this will help increase the production of anti-ballistic missiles and strengthen the security not only of Ukraine, but also of other states.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth adding that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hirshe-y-buty-ne-mozhe-zelenskyy-zaiavyv-pro-znachnyy-defitsyt-raket-do-system-patriot\/\">Ukraine has a significant shortage of missiles for Patriot air defense systems<\/a> . He described the shortage as \u201cit couldn\u2019t be worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has asked Germany to transfer additional missiles for Patriot systems amid increasing Russian air attacks. Bloomberg reports this, citing sources. According to the publication, Kyiv wants to receive the missiles this year. In exchange, Ukraine offers to return the interceptors to Germany later, when new batches are produced. Bloomberg sources say the German government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1107229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1401573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}