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...Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, said he was confident Ukraine would get the air defence systems it needed following a meeting with other top European politicians....
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...There were no fresh pledges of air defence systems immediately following the meeting....
...President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made repeated calls for Ukraine’s western partners to provide more air defence systems....
...President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Ukraine’s western partners to immediately provide more air defence systems after a Russian missile attack in Chernihiv on Wednesday morning killed at least 10 people...
...“Missiles are striking every day, and every day we hear that Ukraine will receive new air defence systems....
...These are hard to stop except by shooting down the planes that carry them, using advanced air defence systems....
...Yet to achieve that, Ukraine needs significantly more modern air defence systems....
...“We need air defence systems and other defence assistance, not just turning a blind eye and having lengthy discussions.”...
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...A review into the failure of the UK air traffic control system over last year’s August bank holiday has criticised “a significant lack of pre-planning” for major disruption....
...every kind of air defence system,” he added....
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...They have pleaded with EU nations to provide Ukraine with US-designed Patriot systems and missiles to boost air defence....
...Later Klitschko reported that debris from a missile intercepted by air defence systems had set ablaze cars in one northern district of Kyiv and damaged buildings in two other areas....
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...Engineers working from home worsened the sweeping disruption that caused the UK’s air traffic control system to fail over the August bank holiday weekend, according to a review commissioned by the aviation...
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