KIEV, October 14. /tass/. Ukraine will receive the first NASAMS anti-aircraft missile systems (SAMs) during October. This was stated on Friday by the country's Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov.
"You know that there is a US decision to supply us with NASAMS complexes. Our specialists are already trained to handle them. And the first of these complexes will be delivered to Ukraine this month," he said on the Rada TV channel.
On October 11, the coordinator for strategic Communications at the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House, John Kirby, said that the US authorities expect to transfer the first two NASAMS complexes to Kiev "in the very near future." In total, according to him, the United States intends to supply Ukraine with eight such systems.
