Volodymyr Zelenski announced on 25 August that after NB8 meetings and coalitions of volunteers Ukraine received part of Patriot and AIM missiles, and partners confirmed the transfer of respective Crotale systems. The numbers have not been revealed. For Poland, it is simply a signal that the region's air defence remains Russia's most crucial deterrent line.
Some bullets aren't a breakthrough.
Volodymyr Zelenski passed on August 25 that Ukraine received a limited batch of missiles to Patriot systems and AIM missiles. As he stated Banker for PAP, Ukrainian president besides spoke about confirming the transportation of respective French Crotale systems with ammunition. He did not identify the countries behind the shipment or the exact number of missiles.
This message is crucial but cool in its content. Ukraine is not talking about a large package, but about a supply that fixes the most urgent shortcomings. In the air war against Russia, all battery, all bullet, and all day of hold are important. Western politicians like words of solidarity. The front accounts for them from warehouses, transport and production.
Air defence is the axis of war
The Patriot strategy is of peculiar importance to Kiev due to the fact that it is utilized to combat the most dangerous Russian rocket strikes. Crotale strengthens short-range defense, and AIM missiles can power Ukrainian capabilities against air targets. Ukrainian Truth, citing Zelenski's statement, wrote that Ukraine received missiles for Patriots and AIMBut he inactive needs more.
There's no area for propaganda euphoria. Russia wages a war of destruction, hits missiles and drones into infrastructure, and before winter the stakes rise. DN late reported that Germany is to hand over 600 PAC-2 missiles to Ukraine. Today's news shows that even specified numbers request to be seen in a wider picture: the needs are constant and the usage of ammunition fast.
Polish lessons from Ukrainian sky
Poland should draw its own conclusion from this information. If a state the size of Ukraine, which has been fighting for years and supported by dozens of partners, constantly asks for missiles, then no reasonable individual in Warsaw can treat air defence as an addition to the army. It's the safety core of the state. Without it, power stations, cities, ports, railway junctions and airports become targets that cannot be shielded by declarations alone.
Poland has to aid an assaulted neighbour, due to the fact that keeping Russia far from Polish borders is simply a national interest. At the same time, you must not forget your own magazines, your own manufacture and your own decision-making. About Ukraine wants to spend EU billions to defend heaven, you must besides read as a warning: who does not produce and collect ammunition earlier, the 1 in the hr of rehearsal asks others.
The West must go from conference to production
NB8 format and coalition of volunteers make sense only if transportation is followed. The countries of our region realize Russia better than those who have built business with Moscow for years and called it pragmatism. Now pragmatism means something else: expanding rocket production, full warehouses and clear strategical priorities.
The most crucial thing for the Polish reader is that the war in Ukraine exposes the weakness of the European safety system. Brussels declarations will not replace factories, launchers and trained crews. Poland needs alliances, but alliances are worth as much as the real strength of the countries that make them up. That is why we must strengthen Ukraine against Russia and at the same time build a Polish shield without illusions that individual will do it for us.
Realism alternatively of Compassion
Zelenski's information is good in the sense that missiles and systems are needed immediately. It is besides a informing due to the fact that it shows the scale of deficiencies. The West sends further parties, and Russia hopes that fatigue, bureaucracy and political disputes will slow down the response.
Poland cannot play the same hold game. National interest needs clarity: to support defence against Russian imperialism, to defender our own resources and to force Europe to return to industrial gravity. Whoever has ammunition, radar, and launchers has an argument. Who only has messages is waiting for a miracle.
Source: Banker, Interfax-Ukraine, Ukrainian Truth, Defence24.
Source: Bankier.pl
