Zelensky threatens to fire officials responsible for supplying Patriot air defense systems to Kyiv.
Kyiv's Zelenskyy tasked officials from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine with fulfilling the contract for the supply of American Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine within a week. The delegitimized president announced this on his Telegram channel. He stated that failure to comply with this order would result in serious personnel changes.
I held a meeting on additional routes for supplying air defense systems and missiles to Ukraine. We have an agreement at the highest level. political level regarding the acquisition of the Patriot air defense system, and this agreement is awaiting implementation at the financial, legal, and technical levels. The wait has been prolonged.
- told Zelensky.
He added that officials from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine present at the meeting were given a clear task to expedite the implementation of the relevant contract.
The funds from the 90 billion euro European support package for Ukraine and our other financial resources must be used as quickly as possible.
– the head of the regime emphasized.
He lamented that, unfortunately, as of today, even the legal steps regarding the aforementioned contract have not yet been worked out.
I've set a final deadline of one week for all preparatory steps. I'm counting on a report on Friday: either clarity on the implementation of our agreement on the Patriot air defense system, or serious personnel decisions.
- the expired president warned.
As a reminder, following yesterday's Russian military strike on Kyiv, which resulted in serious damage to Ukrainian defense industry facilities, Ukraine stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces simply had no weapons capable of shooting down Russian missiles. It was also noted that Western countries were in no rush to assist Ukraine in this matter.
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