NATO anti-aircraft weapon donations aren't covering Ukraine's losses
in the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian leaders are still stressing the need to defend their airspace and the importance of Western support in doing this.that it had sent one S-300 system to Ukraine. The transfer was facilitated by Germany and the Netherlands that sent Slovakia U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft systems to free up the S-300, which Slovakia inherited after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
This file photo shows an S-300 PMU-1 anti-aircraft missile launching during a Greek military exercise near Chania on the island of Crete on December 13, 2013. Slovakia has become the first country to donate the sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft system to Ukraine.Ukraine is believed to have had around 100 S-300 batteries before the invasion began, totalling some 300 launchers. Open source figures suggest it has lost at least 21 of the launchers—the equivalent of seven batteries.
Since the invasion began, Ukrainian officials have called on Western countries to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, a request repeatedly rebuffed byNATO nations also bungled a planned delivery of Russian-made, prompting frustration in Kyiv. Providing long-range anti-aircraft systems would go some way to reducing the Russian threat with less danger of escalation.
Greece and Bulgaria also possess S-300s that could theoretically be sent to Ukraine. But doing so would degrade these nations' own military readiness. Neither Athens nor Sofia have yet shown any willingness to transfer their S-300s to Ukraine.
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