Berlin pledges decision on Patriots for Kyiv within 'days or weeks'


FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends a "One Big Beautiful" event held by U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured) at the White House in Washington, DC., U.S., June 26, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Berlin and Washington will take a decision about sending two U.S.-made Patriot air defence systems to Kyiv within days or weeks, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday after talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Germany has offered to buy U.S. Patriot units to supply them to Ukraine which has suffered some of the heaviest Russian attacks of the war over the past weeks.

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