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Germany will send an additional American-made MIM-104 Patriot long-range air defense system to Ukraine to help it fend off increased Russian strikes, the German Defence Ministry announced on April 13.
The ministry said that the air defense system will come from the stocks of the German military and is to be handed over immediately.
“Russian terror against Ukrainian cities and the country’s infrastructure is causing immeasurable suffering,” said German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, announcing the move. “It is jeopardizing people’s energy supply and destroying the operational readiness of the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Chancellor Olaf Scholz also spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday, reaffirming his “unwavering solidarity with Ukraine in the face of massive and ongoing Russian airstrikes, particularly on civilian energy infrastructure,” a German government spokesman said in its own statement.
Last year, Ukraine received two Patriot batteries and two launchers from Germany and another battery from the United States with two additional launchers donated by the Netherlands.
The systems supplied to Kiev are said to be a mix of PAC-3 hit-to-kill active missiles to intercept ballistic missiles, with a range of 30-60 kilometers only, and PAC-2 blast fragmentation warhead semi-active missiles to counter aircraft threats with a range of up to 160 kilometers.
The Russian military has already destroyed much of Ukraine’s Patriot systems, which explains why Germany was forced to sacrifice another system to keep the air defenses of the country operating at least for a while.
Sooner or later, the additional Patriot system, which costs around $1.1 billion, will likely meet the same fate as the ones supplied to Ukraine before.
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good idea give away your aa when you are about to start ww3
people in ukraine who had previously been seen as pathological individuals are now highly valued. vitaly klitschko openly invited murderers to join his idiots army. following in his footsteps, the danish state welcomed criminals, including those convicted of violent crimes, giving them amnesty and suspending their prison sentences if they agreed to go to war against norway.
we vote about things.. by that we have laws about i long time before the fatal erooring crashling ussr them selv.
the rest is decided by eu with own levels for temporative refugees. before ther agrssion we has 10.000 ukras 100% in jobs.
now we also has mainly vomen, children and a few old ones. the vomen all has descent jobs and is low end normal taxtayers. all children to schols and all has homes.
i have never read so much bullshit in my entire life. you danish idiots are so indocreinated its almost sad how funny it is.
we americans got you properly propagandized, and you dolts dont even notice it.
guillable idiots!
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ha ha, he thinks voting actually chooses leaders in his puppet government.
i am low educated potato farmer –when amerikan order potato or put peniz in my azz this in normal
eu is a cia project and your country is subject to laws dictated from brussels by a bunch of eurocrats nobody voted for. you could say eu is like the ussr in many ways. russia has moved on from the 80s you are still stuck there in your head thinking how great everything is even though your bills are going through the roof for food, energy and healthcare. enjoy the coming economic collapse. russia can just take the slow route and watch you eat yourself.
bolsheviks – nazis – cia – all creations of the same mobsters.
the eu politburo. ha ha
so that’s how much they defend liberty, and sovereignty. how few griwna did you sell your soul to zelenska for?
nazis are known to be stupid. we americans exploit them wherever possible. back in the day in germany, denmark, holland etc, and now in ukraine. all the same.
the whole eu are guillable idiots!
hahahaha
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normal produre in your world in ignoring the people running this.
in denmark much more then 99% runs things. for ukraine its some 87&. so you babling is not even about about some 50%.
and it was never same. nazis and comminist were in every county in almost every parts of the world.
denmark max had 4,5% nazis in max, som 95,4 was never.
and you ignore there are good elction results from all cóuntries back in time.
you dont relay ukrane election results. they all was rigged or people was killed, removed or in jail
so you aknowledge that you are a nazi, perfect
what a clownshow you danish dolts are
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he’s too dumb to be a nazi, in spite of nazis in general and ukronazis in particular being dumber than most.
dummkopf, don’t you understand what banderites are? they, with your stupid eu’s help, took over by force the entire ua government and proceeded on ethnically cleaning their eastern population.
some eu standards you eu dipshits try to uphold. you’re supporting a fascist government without minorities and conducting war crimes for a decade, just like bandera hoped to create. if russia finally responded then blame yourselves, nobody else.
jens is so marinated in eu propaganda, he can’t think straight….which explains his nonsensical posts that only a psychiatrist with a rosetta stone could possibly decipher.
haha the danish nazi tries to defend itself with lies, hillarious!
clown! 🤡 😆😆😆
i have intellect of common retarded potato farmer–i so stupid was rejected from toilet scrubber academy so learned diek licking
you have got a point there, along with the us.
you are just a version of ther internal russian world not connected to the real one here.
same for most things. globalisme is the whole world minus russia. blindfolded to use eu in recession atsunike, when almost all of the world is too.
talking the radical changes energi production and spending by a good plans fx for eu is same things.
the results are even there in simple facts. we do need less fosssils and we use less energy for electricity and heathing. its cleaner here with hardly no smag as well. good for lungs and long life.
none here has told wind and solar panels replace all fossil but only big parts will become almost fossil free. its never told we has plans for making and storing enegeri by hydrogene, biodiesels, methane, alcohol and fx hot water.
so far those projects are expensive but they almost is here.
none here wish import from usa/canada instead of russia(and fx kasakstan),
its only a russian gadget with threats nuke included using ww3. do you want to sell umbrellas, sunglases and cold drinks. very much as you dont want to be here.
i worship amerikant dollar—i dream about dollar in my azz
heathens don’t need heathing. you’ll do fine.
hahaha what a clown, the danish nazi defending the german nazis and ukrainian nazis.
no wonder we americans run circles around you idiots!
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we americans tell them to jump and they ask ‘how high, massa?’
now that we americans are getting sick and tired of these stupid ukrapests, europeans begin thinking they can start telling themselves how to jump. that’ll be fun to watch as they splat face first onto ukropistan’s black soil, then watch how they blame us for getting them into their mess to begin with, just like the ukropistanis are doing now. listen to bojo the bozo do just that. it’s hilarious.
americans are the unwashed cowboys corralling the dumb eu cattle for later milking and slaughter.
not lick only suk—my intelligence level senile monkey
europe no longer needs us natural gas and china will pay in 2024 65% more for russian pipeline gas cubic meter than europe once did. russia wins big. grim reality has come to kiev – russia has won its energy war.
…europe will need less and less natural gas. 🎈🎈🎈
sure, because all its factories will have moved to the us or china or vietnam. lol
we descend into medieval society only need teepee dildo and lgbt flag
vikings left all runts and mentals back in denmark. if it comes to war, even the french can overrun denmark in a day.
i hope germany gets wiped off the face of the earth filthy nazi sympathizers.
meanwhile they pretend they”re exactly the opposite. they should be shot just for lying so often to themselves.
what….? why…? ukraine lost no air defense system and so far shot down all russian drones and missiles… none ever hit ukraine, none i tell you.
may i just say, this is not even important to mention anymore… it is not like this will change anything for ukraine.
btw i was gone for 1 day… now we have fuking rtded ape that spam 2-3 shit copy-paste 24/7….
from ego clown that was down voting (lmfao) to this rtd…
thats no new thing and hit many here.
there should be a filter for that.
wish there was an idiot filter for your stupid comments.
testtesttest
incorrect. they loose system and need addictions as well.
the krauts are like the fetish slave in pulp fiction. they like being bound in leather und want to stay put where they are.
that’s scholz for sure, anyway. and it turns out that mama murti was a joke as well. germans are hopeless. either they elect mass murderes or they elect clowns, nothing in between. at least we in the us can elect mass murdering clowns and get two for one.
we like submissive germs in my crack house
germicide is a good cure for what ails germany.
we must support ukraine against russian imperialist chauvinism and aggression.
we must stand against russian fascism.
how stand? you are weak, all of you. get tfo of here
does russia worship a mass-murdering fascist by the name of stepan bandera or is it ukraine?
get the f-off the earth, ignoramus. your propaganda is too stupid even for the likes of you.
the only russian fascists are fighting on the side of ukraine, bozo.
do you actually know and understand the meaning of fascism?
putin’s russia is fascist country.
why is it fighting the fascist country of ukraine then? you make no sense.
btw…did you hear kuleba trying to blackmail the west again? they’re not only fascists, they’re extra-stupid fascists.
kiev jewish-banderites are village nazis, absurdist parody on mad adolf’s reich.
the ukraine are the agressors, even a stupid american idiot like myself knows and sees this.
but i still support their nazism.
its the american nazi way!
heil nato
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i support teenagers from early age learn contrasemption. by that there would less abortions and unwanted children in the world.
i support teenagers to learn about contrasimianism, so they can learn to recognize babbling baboons like you at an early age.
in dumbmark abortion should be mandatory…the superior races from syria will replaces us lower crude ugly roaches in nation 404
unfortunately i was not aborted—my prostitute mother got extra welfare and rented me out to gay mulattos–now i need diaper
screw you. why did you think it a good idea to start this war in 2014?
reap what you sow, fool.
when you say “support” i read pouring your money into bottomless pit and still end up with no results. ukraine has been destroyed and sooner or later the same thing that happened to ukraine will happen to your own country. i’m going to guess you are either from britain or usa and your own government hates you is replacing you with migrants that are easier to control. do you guys still shower once a month to “teach” putin a lesson?
meanwhile the right winged afd leader is pointing out with this act germany is down to two patriot missile launchers…
that’s all folk…
it really is…
this trolls think, their vote here make anything going away, the russians did to their heroes on the field. death is on it’s way, that’s all. doom is coming
russian army had never cared a shit about its own hapless soldiers. wagner army was full of criminals including pedophiles and rapists. putin’s russia is fascist racist pigsty.
if russia’s a pigsty, then ukrainians are the pigs in its sty.
dumb swede have 3 roach brain jealous inferior
its fine.
russians cant invade even with bycycles and fish gear as supply.
sa zic inutile?
pistorius is the new goebbels!
he is the perfect cia nazi collaboteur. remember, we lie, we steal, we cheat!
its the american nazi way!
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piss and shit are all pistorius has to offer the world.
nazis helping nazis… seems fair.
death to them both.
russia is a facist country now.
and ukraine’s been a fascist country since 2014.
better than ugly us ole colony
i worship amerikun dollar—last night i pray to god dollar 2 hours for nurse change my diapers
the 0 id wrote that.
are you trying to say that your id wrote that? do you even know what an id is? it’s your ego’s sidekick.
and don’t try to tell me ‘nazty ukraine’ is something i dreamed up. it’s what the sun called ukrainian football fans in the uk that made a human swastika in the bleachers many years ago.
of course, the sun deleted the story from their archives. it’s what the brits do, delete anything that one might ask ‘why do you support nazty ukraine now?’
theres nothing like one truck to signify unwavering solidarity. these systems need to be far more modular. the entire payload needs to be on standard truck and the control system either on a laptop or suitcase style plug in module that can be operated 100 yards away by cable, all you need then are the six packs. this german gift will soon be charred waste.
anyway, ukraine will fit into the area of a football pitch, so one patriot system will suffice for all their needs.
they wanted 7 and got 1. trump wants to give ukraine weapons for debt. i dont think europe can support ukraine alone.
the eu will eventually end up with all the ukrainian banderite nazis as refugees and will be trying to figure out why their domestic nazis are growing by leaps and bounds and how to contain them.
the eu is run by morons.
kuleba spits in biden’s face, trying to imitate netanyahoo.
it’s well known fact that since 2013 renewables could produce electricity much cheaper than fossiles and nuclear energy. that’s the reason why china is building fastly solar and wind power. fossile selling russia has not good cards in hand. one of the reasons why russia will have grim future. putin never realized it. renewables won✔️ – russia lost.❌
moron amerikunt desperate hillbilly or illiterate ukie? —another amerikunt cannot think—-gas oil demand increasing–price increasing. worldwide
you just proved how mentally sick russian fascists are.
i agree. the russian fascists that are fighting on the side of ukraine and terrorizing and murdering belgorod civilians with no military gain are truly mentally sick. it’s a blessing to the world that they’ll end up dead on the battlefield.
desperate nazi prove transgender—impressive
your understanding of alternative energy systems could fit into a thimble and still have room for your thumb.
germ donate me 1 rusty dildo
well, that’ll last a week or two.
why not just blow this thing up before it leaves germany and save the fuel. tokenism at its best.
we no need this shit anymore. so ukraine can have it for free.
german fregatte wanted to shoot a drone with an american rocket and the rocket missed the drone , because it was an american drone.
so we cannot fight the americans…we are not a free country
german slaves make the best beer.
the ukrainians will put it a residential neighbourhood
and they’ll keep the residents there hostage as human shields, then kill them when they’re forced to retreat and blame the russians. it’s happened so many times already, you can set your clock to it.
russia has lost its energy war.
taking some looted ukrainian villages in donbas is pyrrhic victory for putler.
desperate loser humiliated
electricity in europe is now cheaper than year ago and renewables have decimated fossile energy sector largely. this is a big strategic move making russia weaker. now russia desperately tries to sell pipeline gas to china. but china too go to renewables.
china didn’t want to invest to siberia ii pipeline. gazprom is in serious problems and putin’s pants are down with his little dark red painted willie revealed to whole world.
is that what your television told you? i guess you are still hiding in the basement and haven’t heard the news that your government imposed lock down is over.
electricity is more expensive depending on which country you live in, but lets take western europe as example they are paying a thousand or more euros per household per year and that is just energy. everything has become more expensive: food, services and healthcare. the only way to get cheaper electricity is by building nuclear power plants. where are you going to store all that nuclear waste einstein. you think you can run a industrial base on solar panels made in china and wind turbines?
electricity in eu is 3 times that 3 years ago….ruyssia profits from gas oil historic high 2024
a year ago it was ten times what americans pay and thirty times what russians pay, so pat yourself on the back while you slap yourself upside the head for posting something so stupid.
35 years after the fall of the berlin wall, it has become clear that resource-rich russia has become much poorer than its former soviet neighbours such as estonia, latvia, poland and hungary, who pursued the route of european integraation. the russian regime has no incentive to end the war and deal with that kind of economic reality.
putin has proven to be a source of international instability and kleptocratic despotism in russia. such a regime must not be supported. how can anybody favor putin’s frightful suppression of the russians? putin belongs in prison.
by starting the war in ukraine, putin triggered a feedback loop of political nemesis. every action he takes now contributes to his own destruction.