Zelenskyy: German IRIS-T air defence system performs very well

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – TUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2022, 23:29

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the German IRIS-T air defence system effective and said that the system "showed itself very well."

Source: President Zelenskyy’s nightly video address

Quote from Zelenskyy: "The German IRIS-T has shown itself very well - it is a really effective system.

We are working with partners to provide even more protection to the Ukrainian sky."

Previously: 

• The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on 14 October that ​​the IRIS-T air defence system, recently delivered from Germany, was already in active use by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the country’s south.
• Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, reported on 12 October that Ukraine received its first IRIS-T air defence system from Germany.

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