‘We want missiles, too’: Trump on sending more Patriot interceptors to Ukraine

President Trump responded to Ukrainian President Zelensky's pleas for more Patriot interceptor missiles with a cryptic remark: 'We want missiles, too.' Trump didn't clarify whether the United States would continue supplying them—though earlier this month, he reportedly refused Zelensky's request for three hundred Patriot missiles before winter. The shortage is critical: Ukraine's air defenses shot down only one of twenty-seven ballistic missiles in an August first attack, and zero of twenty-four on August fifth. Per Meduza, Zelensky says the interceptor shortage is precisely why Russia's missile strikes keep breaking through.

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