More air defenses needed to protect Ukrainian NPPs - Air Force

This was stated by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ihnat, who spoke on the air of the national telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"This is not about what we can do or not – this is vital for us. The fall-winter period is already here and the protection of our critical infrastructure facilities is an extremely important mission that is entrusted to all of our Defense Forces, not only the Air Force. Thus, these issues are discussed every day — where and how we can strengthen the protection of these facilities," the spokesman said.

He added that Ukraine needs more air defense capabilities to be donated by foreign partners to protect such facilities.

"It is clear that Russia may focus attacks exactly where it did last year, so every assistance package, every system that is provided to Ukraine, even if it is an older one, including the Hawks that we receive now or systems that we managed to adapt to launch American munitions, it is still a quantitative upgrade aimed to protect critical infrastructure facilities," Ihnat said.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhnyi discussed with the Air Force Command the strengthening of air defense capabilities and the protection of critical infrastructure facilities in the fall-winter period.