Ukraine war briefing: Small batch of Patriots arrives as Zelenskyy pleads for more

President won’t name supplier and has previously said he ‘does some things I can’t even share’ to obtain vital air defence missiles. What we know on day 1,644 Ukraine has ⁠recently received a ⁠small number ⁠of US-made ​Patriot interceptors capable ⁠of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles, Volodymyr ​Zelenskyy ‌said. He did not ​say how ​many ​had arrived, ​or ‌who ​had ​supplied them. Kyiv also ‌got confirmation of future supplies of the French Crotale surface-to-air ‌missile system, the ...

By Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies