❗️The 🇳🇱Netherlands announced an additional Patriot for 🇺🇦Ukraine, the members of the new government of the Netherlands announced at a briefing with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, writes Radio Svoboda

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1. Announcements of more Patriot systems is starting to happen more often 🙂

2. We will have to check some “original” sources and official statements to avoid misunderstandings. Till now, the Netherlands have not delivered a Patriot system but together with Germany parts of it. So Germany has delivered the command centers, radars, the support vehicles, like generators, loading, trucks e.g. and missiles, so everything, what is part of a “Patriot unit system”. The Netherlands have delivered the starter vehicles (TAL) and missiles for these systems, to complete these to a full unit.

   So: Will Netherlands deliver a whole Patriot unit so radar, command centers, starter vehicles, loading vehicles, transport trucks for reloading, missiles e.g.?

   Or again together with another country, parts of a unit.

3. Old announcement. This isn’t a second system within the last month.

4. What is important here is that the brand new Dutch government, less then a week old, partly composed of populist far right parties, sent a HEAVY delegation (secretary of state and secretary of defense) to affirm our unwavering and continued support. Unlike some other countries, our populist movement does not shy away from supporting the Ukraine

5. I get confused; how many Patriot systems (Full independent systems) is UKR getting now, and how many do they currently (officially) have?