Zelenskyy: Ukraine receives 'more than ten' NASAMS systems
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine has received "more than ten" Norwegian NASAMS air defense systems.
"Norwegian NASAMS systems helped us a lot. I will not share the exact number of NASAMS we have, but it is more than ten and we are still getting them. We have also received missiles for NASAMS made by Norway. However, even domestic Norwegian stocks weren’t enough. And then Norway worked with other countries at the political level to provide us with some additional missiles. This was very important," Zelenskyy said in an interview with NRK News.
The president also said that in parallel, Ukraine were working on joint production and IRIS-T systems. "And then it was like a rising wave: when one country stepped up, other real allies, like Norway, followed."
On February 25, Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine has NASAMS air defense infrastructure, as the priority is to protect 230 facilities, some of which were protected by these systems.
"We have NASAMS, we have this infrastructure. It’s not just one, it’s two. It’s more. I don’t want to share the exact number here, but all the NASAMS are operational because we have a priority – 230 facilities that need to be protected. But some of them were protected by NASAMS," Zelenskyy said at a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in Kyiv.
