US media: Biden has not yet decided whether to send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine

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US President Joe Biden has not yet decided whether to send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, which Kiev would very much like to have in service. They say that Washington should increase military assistance to the Armed Forces so that they can defend the country from an allegedly impending attack by Russian troops.

This is reported by the American television channel CNN, citing a source in the White House.



The US media notes that although the Armed Forces of Ukraine would very much like to receive air defense systems from overseas, American President Joe Biden has not yet decided whether to send Patriot air defense systems and other military products to Ukraine.

Indeed, in recent months, the Americans have sent Kiev Javelin anti-tank systems, Island patrol boats, first aid kits, radio stations, electronic equipment, engines, generators, medical equipment, spare parts, small arms weapon and ammunition. In this regard, as suggested by Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan, the Kremlin may regard additional arms supplies to the Ukrainian military as a provocation organized in response to Putin's ultimatum.

Despite this, the White House does not exclude that a new batch of military cargo will still be sent to Ukraine.

American experts believe that the United States will not supply Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine. One of the reasons is that the United States is unlikely to receive money from the Ukrainian budget for such a delivery, and it is not in American rules to transfer such a system free of charge. The deployment of the Patriot air defense system with the American contingent, as noted, could clearly provoke Moscow into decisive retaliatory actions.
  • The US Department of Defense
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  1. +3
    18 December 2021 16: 08
    They will sell it as drink, give, this was and is Ukraine. Will be honored to sell and brag.
    1. +1
      18 December 2021 16: 24
      Let the mattresses straighten all the newest and most classified))) through Ukraine their secrets "nowhere" will not flow out)))
    2. +3
      18 December 2021 16: 24
      And Pan Ataman is a penny for patriots?
      1. +4
        18 December 2021 16: 42
        Quote: andrewkor
        And Pan Ataman is a penny for patriots?

        Pan Ataman will shake the electorate on this sacred cause.
    3. +5
      18 December 2021 16: 30
      The entire list of "Wishlist" of Ukraine please read out !!!
      1. +4
        18 December 2021 20: 10
        Quote: aleks neym_2
        The entire list of "Wishlist" of Ukraine please read out !!!

        I'm afraid there won't be enough paper.
        They need "usho sho e", sho "treba and ne treba" and "don't let it lie" ...
    4. +4
      18 December 2021 17: 20
      Quote: SKVichyakow
      They will sell it as drink, give, this was and is Ukraine.

      Do you know the price tag for the Patriot battery? About gigabax. The Poles finally bought it for 1,2 lard. And the service of the satellite constellation is not worth little money. Here are the Poles and brag
    5. 0
      18 December 2021 18: 22
      amerikosov don’t get anything for free (and rightly so) - the Armed Forces of Ukraine have such pennies close enough, but give Ukraine a loan under their own credit? All right for the sheikhs, but Ukraine? minke whales anyone, but not "naive Chukchi youths" - complexes with such a price "for loyalty"? that's enough for them and the Javelins ... they don't even give them the F-16 decommissioned, and you - the SAM ..
  2. -1
    18 December 2021 16: 08
    Yes, there will certainly be retaliatory actions. am
  3. +9
    18 December 2021 16: 09
    Why do they need a Patriot?
    First aid kits, black plastic bags, instructions on how to behave in captivity ...
    And as you wanted.
    1. -1
      18 December 2021 19: 47
      I really want to wait for Russia to go to war.
      1. +1
        18 December 2021 23: 59
        Yesterday Russia offered the West conditions, new treaties, etc. They say do not meddle in Ukraine, do not put MRBM in Europe, and so on and so on.
        And today the West responds - give up Crimea, surrender Donbass, leave Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Then they say we will think about these plans of yours.
        It turns out a new Yalta, which is still impossible to hope for, even theoretically?
        As well as the demands of the West are impossible even theoretically. Simply due to the fact that citizens of the Russian Federation have been living in the places they mentioned for a long time.
        And yes, they also asked about Transnistria. They say the Moldovan land is occupied.
        1. +3
          19 December 2021 05: 43
          A new Yalta is impossible and these public statements are a bullet. Equal parties participated in the former Yalta, the modern Russian Federation is not considered as such.
          Means war .
          And the "RF proposals" were made publicly ... as publicly as possible, so that it would be clear to history that all measures and possibilities were taken to bring the matter to peace.
          There will be no peace.
          And this is good . This is clarity and certainty.
          And the fact that Russian offshore capital is urgently transferring its assets to Russian jurisdiction (offshores in Kaliningrad and on Russky Island) suggests that Western ultimatums have also been rejected.
          This means that the "Ukrainian question" does not have long to exist. As well as "Ukraine" itself.
          Then we'll see if these heroes will fight for her.
          And the fact that sabotage has become more frequent and intensified is also a sign that the denouement is close.
          Everything will happen next year.
          1. +2
            19 December 2021 14: 35
            NATO already does not even hide that Russia is its main enemy and everything that the alliance does is directed against Russia. They speak directly in the eyes. Negotiations and treaties reject everything outright.
            And this has not happened yet!
            Or did they take such a step due to the fact that they no longer consider Russia an adequate rival in terms of economy, production, population and stability of power in the light of recent events?
            Protests will stir up. Including ... the authorities themselves. In the regions. There, too, not everything is so smooth, who works in whose interests. And they can do everything the other way around against the interests of the state. Although they look like patriots and honest people.
            And from under the floor to do everything to destroy the state.

            And our people said today to the West, they say, think seriously about our proposals. There will be no more of them. And this is in Ukraine as well.
  4. -7
    18 December 2021 16: 14
    What nonsense the yellow press is collecting the site. Well, the space shuttle x-67, the globol hawk and further down the list of the whole high-tech do not want, but grandfather thinks. Well, it’s not funny for a long time.
  5. 0
    18 December 2021 16: 34
    Sooner or later they will send. Ukraine has already been cut off. Cut off and owned by the Anglo-Saxons. Therefore, so that this chunk does not go back, almost everything from the conventional and modern will be put there.
    1. +3
      18 December 2021 17: 58
      Quote: Troll
      Sooner or later they will send. Ukraine has already been cut off. Cut off and owned by the Anglo-Saxons. Therefore, so that this chunk does not go back, almost everything from the conventional and modern will be put there.

      Ukrainian government but not the people! do not confuse with the people! power belongs to the Anglo-Saxons! so it is necessary to free this people from the genocide of the Anglo-Saxons!
      1. +1
        18 December 2021 22: 15
        In 91, a militant minority broke up the Union. In the 14th, the same minority led Ukraine apart from the fraternal peoples. What am I doing? And besides, slogans are slogans, and you speak with slogans, but life is life.
    2. -1
      18 December 2021 18: 44
      To post something modern there is if you either do it like the Saudis, or you really drink all the secrets.
    3. +1
      18 December 2021 18: 52
      I am sure that unfortunately, sooner or later, Patriot staffs and many other things, which are sooooo unpleasant for Russia, will be deployed in Ukraine.
    4. -2
      19 December 2021 00: 28
      Well as belonging. The bottom line is that Russia pushed Ukraine itself into the hands of the West. Because Russia is stronger than Ukraine and Ukraine needs to look for allies and defenders ... and who can take such a role?
      In fact, doing business with Russia is problematic; the West has more loyal packages and economic advantages. If Russia had a GDP like China, all the former republics themselves would stand in line for an interruption in the Customs Union. And so you only have to intimidate everyone by force, without the carrot.
  6. +1
    18 December 2021 16: 36
    Quote: andrewkor
    And Pan Ataman is a penny for patriots?

    The conversation is not about buying, but about delivery. And these are two big differences.
  7. -1
    18 December 2021 16: 37
    American experts believe that the United States will not supply Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine.
    ... We don't have enough ourselves, probably ....
  8. Rex
    +2
    18 December 2021 16: 55

    Somehow they have only a little bit, but ambitions. Intergalactic scale.
  9. 0
    18 December 2021 17: 08
    Let them send. We will buy from them, study and find the best option for protection.
  10. +2
    18 December 2021 17: 17
    If he does, then the meeting with Putin will be only in the future life.
  11. +3
    18 December 2021 17: 20
    let them send, the dill will shoot back - it's less scary
  12. +2
    18 December 2021 17: 55
    Ukrainians say thank you to the United States and the EU that there will be a big bad boom where they live because of the Ukrainian government, but yes, I forgot they are governors, and the power is in the United States and the EU
  13. 0
    18 December 2021 22: 10
    if the Arabs were not given for money, then wars of light for free will definitely not be given
  14. 0
    18 December 2021 22: 53
    Have all the complexes to be disposed of been taken to Poland? Well, you could find a couple, albeit not working, from the landfill.

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