Ukraine to get much-needed Patriot missiles

CRUCIAL MOVE SIGNALS A CHANGE OF HEART FOR US PRESIDENT TRUMP

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US President Donald Trump said the US will send more Patriot air-defence batteries to Ukraine, which Kyiv has said it needs to protect itself from Russian strikes.

“We're not paying anything for them,” Trump told reporters Sunday on his way back to the White House. “But we will get them Patriots, which they desperately need.”

The move signalled a change of heart for Trump, who had held off approving any new weapons shipments to Ukraine since the start of his second term. Instead, he had sought to coax Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, arguing that he could get a halt to the conflict where his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, had failed.