PM Pledges Patriot System For Ukraine

The Netherlands government has decided to send an air defense system to Ukraine, reports Bloomberg News.

In joint remarks with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared "the intention" to join the United States and Germany in supplying Ukraine with a Patriot missile defense system.

The deployment of any such units to Ukraine is expected to take months because Ukrainian forces still need to be trained on them.

Rutte also said that the Netherlands had decided to allocate an additional 2.5 billion euros (US$2.7 billion) to support Ukraine.