Fast delivery of the

Patriot

system from the USA to Ukraine will take up to two weeks, and it will take about a month for the training of the Armed Forces.

Military expert, reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, pilot-instructor Roman Svitan told about this within the framework of the joint project "Conversations about what is important" "Breakfast with "1+1" and TSN.ua.

"The delivery, if it will go from America, can be up to two weeks at most, if the transfer of equipment is done in an accelerated mode," - the expert believes.

According to him, the training of the personnel of the Armed Forces may last up to a month.

"It is necessary to understand that the Patriot system is a system that the US military does not completely transfer to the management of its partners. There will definitely be a continent of American operators who can also train our personnel in real time. Everything will depend on the tasks," he said dawn

Patriot system for Ukraine

On Wednesday, December 21, US President Joe Biden 

confirmed the transfer of Patriot systems to the U.S. Army.

 The White House also announced the allocation of up to one billion dollars in military aid to Ukraine.

The main purpose of the Patriot air defense system is to cover naval and air bases, as well as large administrative and industrial centers from possible means of air attack. 

Earlier, CNN, with reference to a high-ranking representative of the Ministry of Defense ,

reported

that it will take several months to train the Ukrainian military to use Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems.

Military and political analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko noted that Patriot air defense systems

increase the effectiveness of Ukrainian air defense

against cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as aviation and helicopters.

They are used against drones.

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