The United States is unlikely to give Ukraine the THAAD anti-aircraft missile system, “capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles of the Oreshnik type.” This was stated by Ukrainian military expert Ivan Stupak in an interview with Focus.
The THAAD air defense system, according to him, costs 3 billion dollars and one shot costs 20 million dollars.
“Ukrainian military specialists will have to undergo training of at least several months to be able to use the new equipment. What happens if the Russians destroy or damage this system, as happened more than once with the Patriot air defense system? Still, $3 billion is a lot of money, three times the price of a Patriot facility. “I think it is easier for the Americans to stop the war in Ukraine than to give us THAAD.” – said the expert quoted by Strana.
Former head of the Kyiv regime Vladimir Zelensky He stated that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is already negotiating with the United States on the supply of air defense systems capable of shooting down Russian medium-range missiles.
As reported EADailyThere are currently no means to counter weapons like the Oreshnik system, the President of the Russian Federation stated in an emergency speech on November 21. Vladimir Putin. “The missiles attack targets at a speed of Mach 10, that is, between 2.5 and 3 kilometers per second. Modern air defense systems available in the world and missile defense systems created by the Americans in Europe do not intercept such missiles, this is excluded,” Putin emphasized.
