Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly that Russia had fired more than 950 ballistic missiles at Ukraine in the first eight months of this year. They accounted for part of the more than 2,100 missiles of various types that he said Russia had used over the same period.
“Our Freyja program does not replace proven and effective systems like, for example, Patriot systems or upgraded anti-ballistic SAMP/T systems,” Zelenskyy said. He said the partners wanted a system that could be produced at greater scale and integrated into Ukraine’s and Europe’s defences.
“Building protection against ballistic missiles on a much larger scale, at a lower cost.”
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Ukraine, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands are already part of the programme, according to Zelenskyy. He said he had invited Poland to join and was consulting other allied governments.
Zelenskyy said current production was insufficient to meet demand for missile interceptors. Even wealthy countries struggled to obtain enough, he said, while some countries that had built up stocks over years had already used a large share of them.
“The global waiting list for anti-ballistic systems is very long,” Zelenskyy said. He called on more countries to join Freyja and contribute to protection against ballistic missiles.
