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Lockheed Martin

US aerospace and defense company

Geopolitics · Lockheed Martin delegation meets Kyiv defense chiefs amid Patriot missile shortage

Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhen Khmara and Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi met with a Lockheed Martin delegation in Kyiv on Oct. 21 to discuss scaling up the supply of Patriot interceptor missiles, the Defense Ministry said. The talks come as Ukraine faces a severe shortage of the interceptors needed to defend against intensifying Russian ballistic missile attacks, and follow a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and the company two days earlier.