Ukraine’s Neighbor Slovakia Begins Receiving NATO’s Patriot Air Defense System: Officials

U.S. long range air defense systems Patriot (R) and British radar Giraffe AMB are displayed during Toburq Legacy 2017 air defence exercise in the military airfield near Siauliai, Lithuania, on July 20, 2017. Ints Kalnins/Reuters

The first parts of NATO’s Patriot air defense system began arriving in Slovakia on Sunday, the country’s defense minister Jaroslav Nad said.

The US-made system started arriving in the Central European country—which shares a 100km-long (62-mile-long) border with Ukraine—from NATO partner countries and the deployment will continue in the coming days, according to the defense minister.