“As for the Freya program – we will have a meeting on this program during the NATO summit, and then we will already know the date of the leaders’ meeting specifically on the Freya program. So far I don’t have a date, we would very much like this meeting to take place in July or August. I think that is how it will be,” Zelenskyy told journalists at the site of a Russian strike in Kyiv’s Darnytsky district.
The Freya programme concerns an air and missile defence system. According to the supplied input, it is positioned as a cheaper analogue of the Patriot system for intercepting ballistic missiles.
On May 25, Fire Point co-owner Denys Shtilerman said the Freya system could carry out its first interception by the end of 2026. The planned Ankara meeting is expected to clarify the next political steps around the programme.
