{"id":1908584,"date":"2023-04-01T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/patriot-missile-systems-arrival-in-ukraine-is-near\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T22:45:33","slug":"patriot-missile-systems-arrival-in-ukraine-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/patriot-missile-systems-arrival-in-ukraine-is-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriot Missile System\u2019s Arrival in Ukraine Is Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpatriot-missile-systems-arrival-in-ukraine-is-near%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1908584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div data-id=\"page-content\" data-og-area=\"article-blocks\" id=\"incCont\" data-viewport-id=\"HV6HAutY\" data-cmd=\"true\">\n<p>The arrival of the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine is edging closer. The first group of 65 Ukrainian air defense troops, who had been training on Patriot air defense systems at Fort Sill, Oklahoma since January 15, have returned to Europe. They will soon be trained on the two Patriot systems (one American and one donated by Germany and the Netherlands) that will be deployed in Ukraine in the coming weeks. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon\u2019s top spokesman, has stated that the Patriot system will add to Ukraine&#8217;s air defense capabilities and \u201cshield from Russia&#8217;s wanton, brutal attacks on innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/image\"><span data-rawhtml=\"1\">Troops undergoing Patriot training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. (Amber Osei photo)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/rss\/personnel\/1282179\"><\/a> <\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Ukraine aims to acquire 20 Patriot batteries to protect against Russian missiles. Nevertheless, this may not be enough as no other country in the world has been attacked with a similar number of ballistic rockets, said one official.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/ukraine-situation-report-zelensky-secures-patriot-missiles-precision-aerial-munitions-during-u-s-visit\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Patriot systems can handle intercepting cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and aircraft, a senior U.S. defense official has emphasized that the system should be put in the context of a layered, integrated air defense approach. Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder did not specify when the Patriots would be delivered to Ukraine, citing operational security concerns. Nonetheless, he expressed strong confidence that the Patriots would arrive on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine is one step closer to having at least some parts of its skies protected by Patriot air defense systems.After a little more than three months, the first cadre of 65 Ukrainian air defense troops arrived back in Europe this week after training on Patriot air defense systems at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, according to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10694,8746,8747,9674,6991],"class_list":["post-1908584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arrival","tag-missile","tag-patriot","tag-systems","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}