{"id":14996,"date":"2022-09-26T14:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2022-09-26T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T06:26:50","slug":"ukraine-receives-sophisticated-u-s-air-defence-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=14996","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine receives sophisticated U.S. air defence system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kiev, Sept 26<\/strong> — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that Ukraine had received sophisticated air defence systems from the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the first acknowledgment that Ukraine<\/a> had received the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), long sought by Kyiv and whose shipment was approved by Washington late last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We absolutely need the United States to show leadership and give Ukraine the air defence systems. I want to thank President (Joe) Biden for a positive decision that has been already made,”<\/em> Zelenskiy said, according to an English-language transcript of the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“But believe me, it’s not even nearly enough to cover the civilian infrastructure, schools, hospitals, universities, homes of Ukrainians.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskiy also thanked the United States for HIMARS and other multiple rocket-launching systems enabling Ukraine to advance against Russian occupying forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine has staged counter-offensives this month to free from occupation large swathes of territory in northeastern Kharkiv region. It has also made advances in the south.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia describes its seven-month-old incursion into Ukraine as a “special military operation” and denies it targets civilian sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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