Overview
- Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Germany has effectively exhausted its national stocks of interceptor missiles and cannot supply Ukraine from its own reserves.
- Wadephul asserted Berlin has provided everything it had and is financing a large share of assistance, pushing back on criticism of Germany’s contribution.
- He said current missiles come from American production and are going directly to Ukraine under a mechanism largely funded by European partners, chiefly Germany.
- Wadephul urged other European countries to release more of their stockpiles, echoing Defence Minister Boris Pistorius’s calls for partners to review and use their reserves.
- NATO disputed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s claim of Patriot delivery delays and later said several partners would send missiles from their own stocks as Ukraine prepares additional protective measures against possible new strikes.