Newspaper: Spain to supply Patriot missiles to Ukraine, but not launchers

A “small number” of missiles will be sent, the newspaper said. Each of them costs about a million euros.

Spain has three Patriot systems. One of them has been in Turkey since 2015 as part of a NATO mission to protect against possible missile strikes from Syria.

Germany has announced that it will send the third “Patriot” system to Ukraine.

The British newspaper “Financial Times”, citing sources, reported this week that NATO and European Union (EU) countries are urging Greece and Spain to provide Ukraine with additional air defense systems.

This issue was discussed on Monday in Luxembourg at a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers.

Kyiv has appealed to its Western allies to provide it with at least seven more air defense systems.

EU leaders at a summit in Brussels last week directly appealed to the Prime Ministers of Spain and Greece with an invitation to hand over part of their systems to Ukraine, the newspaper’s interlocutors said.

“We all know who has them, we all know where they are and we all know who really needs them,” said one of the paper’s sources.