Array
President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will knock out any Patriot battery that President Biden might send to Ukraine to fend off the Russian invasion.
His remarks came as Russian attacks continued Sunday, with three missiles fired at an industrial zone in the city of Kramatorsk in the partially-occupied Donetsk province.
In an interview Sunday on the state-owned Rossiya-1 television channel, Mr. Putin noted that the Patriot missile system, the centerpiece of a recently-announced $1.85 billion security assistance package from the U.S., has yet to arrive on the battlefield.
“Of course, we’ll take them out – 100%,” he told journalist Pavel Zarubin, according to the official TASS news agency.
Mr. Putin told Russian reporters last week that the Patriot is a “fairly outdated system” and boasted that “an antidote” to it will soon be found.
