This is not the first time that the United States has provided military equipment to Ukraine in order to deal with the Russian invader, but this time, this aid goes a step further.
Nicolas Gosset, researcher at the Royal Institute for Defense, evokes “a qualitative leap” rather than a quantitative one. “Even if this defense system proves to be effective, it must be kept in mind that this is only the supply of a battery. This is not enough to cover the whole Ukrainian sky“, tempers the specialist. “Nevertheless, this delivery is part of a logic of strengthening the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense system which, since the beginning of the conflict, has achieved increasingly high interception rates..”
For Nicolas Gosset, this supply is above all a strong symbolic message from Washington against the Kremlin: “If you continue your strategy of escalation, we will continue to strengthen our aid to Ukraine.“