{"id":16683,"date":"2025-03-08T21:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16683"},"modified":"2025-03-08T21:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:37:16","slug":"us-military-aid-pause-leaves-ukraine-vulnerable-to-russian-air-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16683","title":{"rendered":"US military aid pause leaves Ukraine vulnerable to Russian air attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. halt in sending military aid to Ukraine could leave the country vulnerable to aerial attacks just as Russia is gearing up for a massive increase in drone and missile strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine has a reported six MIM-104 Patriot missile batteries \u2014 used to protect some of the country&#8217;s highest priority targets. The Patriot, with a range of about 160 kilometers, is one of the few systems Ukraine operates that can hit distant targets and knock down Russian ballistic missiles like the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pause in deliveries of U.S. weapons coincides with signs that Russia will double down on longstanding efforts to exhaust Ukraine\u2019s remaining supplies of Patriot air-defense missiles. And with no chance of any immediate replenishment from Washington, that leaves Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure and key cities highly exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the U.S. ends the delivery of Patriot missiles, Ukraine could potentially be supplied by other countries that have acquired the U.S. system.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-military-aid-ukraine-russia-war-aid-us-drone-missiles\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-military-aid-ukraine-russia-war-aid-us-drone-missiles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The U.S. halt in sending military aid to Ukraine could leave the country vulnerable to aerial attacks just as Russia is gearing up for a massive increase in drone and missile strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has a reported six MIM-104 Patriot missile batteries \u2014 used to protect some of the country&#8217;s highest priority targets. The Patriot, with a range of about 160 kilometers, is one of the few systems Ukraine operates that can hit distant targets and knock down Russian ballistic missiles like the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile.<\/p>\n<p>The pause in deliveries of U.S. weapons coincides with signs that Russia will double down on longstanding efforts to exhaust Ukraine\u2019s remaining supplies of Patriot air-defense missiles. And with no chance of any immediate replenishment from Washington, that leaves Ukraine\u2019s infrastructure and key cities highly exposed.<\/p>\n<p>If the U.S. ends the delivery of Patriot missiles, Ukraine could potentially be supplied by other countries that have acquired the U.S. system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-military-aid-ukraine-russia-war-aid-us-drone-missiles\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,259,315,311,619],"class_list":["post-16683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16684,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683\/revisions\/16684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}