Britain will help Ukraine make its own Patriot missile system to reduce their reliance on the US

Britain is set to help Ukraine build their own Patriot air defence system in a bid to reduce Kyiv‘s reliance on supplies from the US.

Washington has not been sending as many of the Patriot system’s Pac-3 missiles as usual with America redirecting resources to the Middle East.

It has meant Moscow have been able to barrage populated areas in Ukraine in recent months due to a shortage of the surface-to-air defensive missiles that would typically intercept Russian attacks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly warned about the risks of this shortage, last month admitting that he is being ‘very persistent’ in pressing the US to provide his

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