{"id":1434267,"date":"2026-08-31T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-and-eu-call-on-greece-and-spain-to-transfer-patriot-missiles-to-ukraine-media\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:50:19","slug":"nato-and-eu-call-on-greece-and-spain-to-transfer-patriot-missiles-to-ukraine-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/nato-and-eu-call-on-greece-and-spain-to-transfer-patriot-missiles-to-ukraine-media\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Turns Up Pressure on Greece and Spain Over Patriot Missiles for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"12\" data-end=\"191\"><strong>NATO and the European Union are pressing Spain and Greece to transfer Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine as Kyiv faces an urgent shortage of air-defense weapons. Both countries hold substantial stocks of the missiles, but neither has yet agreed to release a significant portion of its reserves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"221\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-31\/europe-leans-on-spain-and-greece-to-give-ukraine-air-defenses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"383\">Spain and Greece have some of the largest stockpiles of Patriot interceptor missiles among Ukraine&#8217;s partners. Kyiv and its allies are primarily interested in PAC-2 missiles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"496\">According to the publication, NATO and the EU began calling on Madrid and Athens to transfer some of their reserves to Ukraine back in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"498\" data-end=\"738\">The issue of strengthening Ukrainian air defense is also planned to be discussed during a meeting of defense and foreign ministers of EU countries in Dublin. Representatives of Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland are expected to join the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"740\" data-end=\"942\">Greece has not yet agreed to transfer the Patriot missiles, citing the need to maintain a sufficient number of weapons for its own defense amid a long-standing rivalry with Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"1116\">Spain, in turn, plans to provide Ukraine with 1 billion euros in military assistance in 2026. At the same time, Madrid and Athens did not comment on the current negotiations regarding Patriot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"974\" data-end=\"1215\">It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ssha-ne-khochut-peredavaty-ukraini-sekrety-patriot-tramp-nazvav-prychynu\/\">US President Donald Trump refused to transfer secret technologies to Ukraine for the independent production of Patriot interceptor missiles<\/a> due to fears that American developments could eventually end up in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1217\" data-end=\"1389\">Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-vidmovyv-ukraini-u-dodatkovykh-raketakh-do-patriot-zmi\/\">during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, Trump refused to transfer hundreds of additional Patriot interceptor missiles to Kyiv.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a><\/span>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO and the European Union are pressing Spain and Greece to transfer Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine as Kyiv faces an urgent shortage of air-defense weapons. Both countries hold substantial stocks of the missiles, but neither has yet agreed to release a significant portion of its reserves. &nbsp; This is reported by Bloomberg. &nbsp; Spain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1255212,"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-1434267","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\/1434267","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=1434267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434290,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434267\/revisions\/1434290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}