Did the Russians destroy the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine: Zhdanov answered the question

Patriot air defense systems strengthen the air defense system in Ukraine / US Army Military expert Oleg Zhdanov answered the question of whether Russian troops could destroy the American Patriot air defense system in Ukraine.

"Even if it's true, it's just a launcher. One Patriot battery is 8 launchers, a command post, a radar station and a whole generator. All this is one Patriot complex," he said.

According to Zhdanov, "something was destroyed from the air defense systems", and it may be a Western-style system, but it is not a fact that it is Patriot.

"This is a war. Even if one Patriot launcher is destroyed, it is an inevitable loss. Sooner or later it was bound to happen. War is a mutual process. We destroy the anti-aircraft systems of the Rashists, the Rashists sometimes destroy ours," the expert said.

According to him, we need to wait for official information on this matter, which is not yet available: "Yes, there is a video on which it is quite problematic to identify the system. It seems to be similar."

Was the Patriot air defense system destroyed - what was reported

We will remind you that Forbes wrote that for the first time in the two years of the war waged by Russia against Ukraine, Russian troops most likely managed to detect and hit part of the Ukrainian battery of the American Patriot air defense system.

It was noted that not far from Pokrovsk, the Russians discovered a Ukrainian convoy, which probably included at least two truck-mounted launchers for the ground-based Patriot complex, and struck it with an Iskander.

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