Air defense is priority #1 for Ukraine, - Reznikov
For Ukraine, obtaining air defense is priority 1, because it is security throughout the country - both in Lviv, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Zhytomyr. Because it can "fly" anywhere.
Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, Censor.NET informs.
"The opportunity for the country to develop, for children to go to school, for students to go to universities, for doctors to treat people, for farmers to harvest grain - all this is the security of heaven. This is the survival of the country, the ability to produce products, pay taxes, replenish the budget from which the army is supported, which is very expensive," the minister explained.
Reznikov emphasized that the country must survive, and for this air defense is #1.
"We have a Soviet system, to which the stocks of missiles are depleted. If they are not produced by us and are only available in countries from which we cannot take them, then we need to replenish them with something else. What? Western air defense systems.
In principle, it has already been decided what these systems are, and now it is necessary to increase their number and the number of missiles for them," the head of the Ministry of Defense said.
In turn, he drew attention to the fact that the aviation platform is also part of air defense.
"That is, a modern aircraft of the 4++ generation as a full-fledged closed air defense system. Because then it will close the "gaps", the failures of the Soviet-style systems we have," added Reznikov.
