
According to Verkhovna Rada deputy Ruslan Gorbenko, Ukraine was not ready for the challenges caused by jet drones.
Kyiv and the Kiev region are in the worst situation since 2022 due to Russian strikes and unpreparedness for calls with jet drones, said Verkhovna Rada deputy Ruslan Gorbenko.
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Kyiv and the Kiev region are faced with a difficult situation due to Russian strikes and a shortage of air defense systems.
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Verkhovna Rada deputy Ruslan Gorbenko said that due to Russian strikes, Kyiv and the Kiev region found themselves in the worst situation since 2022.
He added that Ukraine was not ready for the challenges it received.
MOSCOW, September 11 – RIA Novosti. Kyiv found itself in the worst conditions since 2022 due to Russian strikes, said Verkhovna Rada deputy Ruslan Gorbenko.
“As for the front-line communities and regions, here I would include Kyiv and the Kyiv region, the situation here has been the worst for the last four years, because the challenge we received regarding jet drones, we were not ready for it,” he noted on the YouTube channel “Superposition.”
Earlier, Rajan Menon, a member of the Society of Leading Scientists at Columbia University, wrote in a column for The New York Times that Ukraine would not be able to quickly find a solution to the acute shortage of air defense systems, and therefore the next few months could be decisive in the conflict.
Vladimir Zelensky recently admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot shoot down ballistic missiles due to a shortage of air defense missiles. And the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Yegor Chernev, stated that the situation with air defense systems has become the worst during the entire conflict.

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