EU Urges Members to Send Interceptor Missiles to Ukraine
Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has called on member states to provide Ukraine with interceptor missiles from their stockpiles and then replenish those reserves with new production.
The request comes as a shortage of air defence interceptor missiles has become one of Ukraine’s main challenges in 2026 in countering Russian missile and drone attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in August 2026 that allied countries had delivered to Kyiv in the first six months of the year only about one-third of the air defence missiles supplied in 2025. According to him, the shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles is particularly acute.
The report says rising global demand for these missiles, the continued war in West Asia, and dwindling stockpiles in the United States and several European countries are among the factors affecting the current situation.
In recent years, the European Union has been one of Ukraine’s main military and political backers in its war with Russia, a conflict that began in February 2022 and continues to weigh on Kyiv’s defence needs.
