War in Ukraine: why the supply of the Patriot missile is a strong message from Washington

This is not the first time that the United States has provided military equipment to Ukraine in order to deal with the Russian invader, but this time, this aid goes a step further.

Nicolas Gosset, researcher at the Royal Institute for Defense, evokes “a qualitative leap” rather than a quantitative one. “Even if this defense system proves to be effective, it must be kept in mind that this is only the supply of a battery. This is not enough to cover the whole Ukrainian sky“, tempers the specialist. “Nevertheless, this delivery is part of a logic of strengthening the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense system which, since the beginning of the conflict, has achieved increasingly high interception rates..”

For Nicolas Gosset, this supply is above all a strong symbolic message from Washington once morest the Kremlin: “If you continue your strategy of escalation, we will continue to strengthen our aid to Ukraine.

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