MOSCOW. Dec 23 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is confident that the Russian Armed Forces will "crack" the U.S. Patriot air defense missile systems in Ukraine once they are shipped there.
"Of course we'll crack them, no doubt about it, a hundred percent," Putin said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, the author of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television show on the Rossiya-1 (VGTRK) television channel, who posted a fragment of it on his Telegram account.
The U.S. has previously announced its decision to supply Kiev with a battery of Patriot missiles.