Ukraine is pressing allies to take immediate decisions on air defence at next week’s NATO summit, warning that delays in supplying Patriot interceptors are costing lives as Russia intensifies ballistic missile attacks.
Kyiv has appealed to nearly 40 partner countries to urgently transfer Patriot missiles from existing stockpiles in July, offering to backfill them later with deliveries already contracted for Ukraine.
The push ahead of the summit, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to attend, follows one of the deadliest Russian strikes on Kyiv in recent months, which killed at least 30 people overnight on 2 July.
Speaking at the site of a damaged residential building in the capital’s Darnytskyi district, Zelenskyy said delayed deliveries had come at a human cost.
“If our partners had delivered what they promised on time, we could have saved more homes and, frankly, more lives,” he said.
