MOSCOW, 28 Nov. The transfer of Patriot systems to Ukraine will be tantamount to starting a NATO war with Russia, Adam Kobieracki, former deputy secretary general of the alliance for operations, said in an interview with the Polish tabloid Super Express.
would lead the alliance de facto to a war with Russia,» he said.
Koberatsky called the current talks around the supply of weapons to the Kyiv regime a «political circus» that has nothing to do with the issue of security. So, he criticized the proposal of Polish President Andrzej Duda to transfer the Patriot systems to Warsaw if it would be impossible to provide them to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Last week, German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht announced an agreement with her Polish colleague to patrol the airspace with Eurofighter fighter jets and deploy Patriot air defense systems in the country.
After that, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, chairman of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) Jarosław Kaczynski and the Republic's Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak came up with the idea of deploying German Patriots in Ukraine, not Poland.
In Germany, nevertheless, they expressed a desire to leave the air defense system in the NATO air defense system, as reported by the representative of the country's Ministry of Defense, Arno Kollats.
After the start of the Russian special operation, the United States and allies began to pump weapons to Ukraine. President Joe Biden signed the law on Lend-Lease, Washington allocates tens of billions of dollars to the Kyiv regime. Moscow has repeatedly emphasized that the supply of Western military equipment only prolongs the conflict, and the transport of weapons becomes a legitimate target for the Russian army.