Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 18Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that on Tuesday Ukraine will formally ask Israel to provide Kyiv with air defense systems.»Yesterday I asked the EU countries to provide Ukraine with air defense systems «This topic is constantly raised by the President of Ukraine, the Minister of Defense within the framework of the Ramstein format. We also turn to the United States and we are all actively working on this topic. Another news on this issue. Today Ukraine will send an official note to the Israeli government with a request to immediately provide Ukraine with systems air defense and start high-quality cooperation for Ukraine to receive appropriate technologies,» he said during an online briefing. Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the G7 summit, which is being held online, asked for help creating an «air shield» for Ukraine and providing Kyiv with a sufficient number of modern and effective air defense systems. — two days after the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, behind which, according to the Russian authorities, the Ukrainian special services are. As President Vladimir Putin has said, the explosion on the bridge put Kyiv on a par with the most odious terrorist groups, and «it is simply impossible to leave such crimes unanswered.» Attacks are being made on energy, defense, military command and communications facilities across the country, from Kharkiv and Kyiv to Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk, causing massive power outages.
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