The United States hopes to send the first NASAMS air defense system to Ukraine "in the coming weeks"

MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The US Department of Defense announced on Monday that it expects to move the first NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

“We are trying to send the first (of the NASAMS systems) to Ukraine in the coming weeks,” a senior Pentagon official told the press, according to the US Department of Defense in a statement.

Washington has stressed that so far it has provided Ukraine with more than 1,400 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, although it has advanced that the shipment of the NASAMS systems will allow the Ukrainians “to move forward”.

He also stressed that in addition to the United States, there are other countries that intend to provide Ukraine with air defense systems. For example, Spain plans to send Hawk systems, and the United Kingdom and the Netherlands additional missiles for the systems delivered so far.

However, the Ukrainian government confirmed last week the arrival in the country of the first anti-aircraft defense system from Germany, a milestone that Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov framed within the “moral imperative” to help deal with attacks Russians.