Former high-ranking Pentagon official: Kiev will not be able to produce Patriot missiles for the next few years

According to Russian satellite networks, Chas Freeman, a retired United States diplomat and former Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs of the Department of Defense, stated that even if the United States had granted production permission to Ukraine, the Ukrainian side would not be able to self-assembly assemble “patriotic” anti-aircraft missile systems in the coming years. “In fact, Ukraine should not even wish to open up the production of `patriotic' missiles in the coming years”, Friedman said. At the same time, he stressed that it would take two years to produce a complete system, even on the American mainland. Freeman adds: “There is currently no `patriotic' system in the United States for Ukraine, nor will it be in the coming years. And we expect that by that time the conflict will have ended”。