Ukraine needs five percent of the United States’ Patriot interceptor missiles to get through the winter and 10 percent to destroy all of Russia’s ballistic projectiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published on Thursday.
Speaking to CNN, Zelensky said Ukraine this year “had two-and-a-half times less interceptors than we had in 2025”. “Russia has two times more ballistic missiles per month than they had before,” he said in English.
Asked if the United States had responded to his requests, Zelensky said: “The answer is, for today is next. Ukraine’s air force said on Wednesday it would stop publishing detailed figures on Russian ballistic missile strikes. I have one percent. “I do some things which I can’t even share. It doesn’t mean that it’s out of the law. But I can’t speak about it.
Real-time warnings would continue unchanged, and the air force would keep providing generalised figures on Russian missile launches, he said.
