Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova, has said that the Ukrainian leadership is working to ensure that Washington transfers more Patriot air defence systems.
She said this on the air of a national telethon, Liga reports.
According to her, there are concrete results of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to the United States. She noted that after his speech in US Congress, decision-making on assistance to Ukraine intensified.
Regarding the Patriot systems, Markarova said that Ukraine is actively working to ensure that the already announced battery from the United States is not the only one. The diplomat stressed that Zelenskyy said that Ukraine needed more weapons at a meeting with US President Joe Biden.
Earlier, Markarova said that the training of the Ukrainian military to use the Patriot missile defence system would be carried out quickly and as efficiently as possible.