Kyiv has relied heavily on the air defense systems, which fire interceptor missiles, to defend against Russian attacks.
Russian forces destroyed two of Ukraine's U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems in the Odesa region of southern Ukraine, Russia's state-run news agency reported on Friday.'The Odesa resistance reports the destruction of two Patriot air defense systems. Around lunchtime, residents heard a series of explosions, with a second detonation,' Sergei Lebedev, a Kremlin collaborator who coordinates pro-Russian cells in Ukraine told RIA Novosti.
'We're going to reprioritize the deliveries of these exports so that those missiles rolling off the production line will now be provided to Ukraine,' he said. 'This … demonstrates our commitment to supporting our partners when they're in existential danger.'Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in June that the systems 'protect Ukrainian cities and civilians.
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