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EU expected to lobby members to give Patriot interceptors to Ukraine

Summary by Euronews
Ukraine is running out of Patriot interceptors to shoot down Russian missiles and other airborne threats. The EU executive is expected to put pressure on Mediterranean nations, like Greece and Spain, to give theirs up at a defence meeting on Tuesday.

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The European Union is expected to increase pressure on member states that have significant reserves of Patriot interceptor missiles, in order to transfer them to Ukraine, while Kiev faces an increasingly urgent shortage of air defense systems.According to European officials quoted by Euronews, Spain and Greece are expected to be at the center of discussions during the meeting of EU defense ministers in Ireland, where the issue of supplying Ukrai…

Why NATO and the EU are pressuring Greece and Spain to grant Patriot missiles to Ukraine. Critical discussions in Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday.

NATO and European Union countries are pressuring Spain and Greece to deliver Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine as Kiev tries to fend off increased Russian air strikes. The requests were made over the summer and include the possibility that Norway could buy the missiles before they are delivered to Ukraine.

Greece, like other European countries with significant stocks of interceptor missiles, is facing increasing pressure from the European Commission to make some of them available to Ukraine. War in Ukraine: The European Union is pressuring Greece to give Patriot missiles to Zelensky while Erdogan is “going wild” in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean- … The article War in Ukraine: The European Union is pressuring Greece to give Patriot missil…

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Euronews broke the news in Lyon, France on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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