Ukraine will soon receive a new package of PAC-3 Patriot interceptor missiles, but the persistent shortage has forced Kyiv to “squeeze” additional interceptors from partner countries, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.Zelensky said in an interview with journalist Ramina Eshakzai on Thursday that one package of PAC-3 missiles will arrive “soon” without specifying the timeline or the quantity expected.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“One package will come soon. I won’t say when. We have agreed on one PAC-3 package,” he said.According to Zelensky, NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program, in which countries bankroll the purchase of US weaponry for Kyiv, guarantees a fixed number of interceptor missiles each month.However, he said the deliveries fall far short of Ukraine’s needs, as Russia launches roughly twice as many ballistic missiles as interceptor missiles fielded by Kyiv – as shown in the July 6 attack on Kyiv, when none of the 29 Russian ballistic missiles were intercepted.“That’s why there are alternative packages that we don’t talk about publicly, when you literally ‘squeeze’ missiles from different countries. We collect 5, 10 or 20 missiles at a time from each partner so Ukraine can survive,” he said.Currently, PAC-3 Patriot missiles – the most advanced and sought-after model – are produced only in the US and under license in Japan. Germany, meanwhile, manufactures older PAC-2 variants domestically, with some scheduled for delivery to Ukraine from 2027 under a €4 billion ($4.7 billion) deal signed in April.