Israel denies sending Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine

By Lazar Berman

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10 June 2025, 5:58 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

A Patriot missile mobile launcher is displayed outside the Fort Sill Army Post near Lawton, Oklahoma, on March 21, 2023. (AP/Sean Murphy, File)

Israel denies that it gave Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, after the Israeli envoy to Kyiv indicated that it had.

“It is not correct,” says the Foreign Ministry in a statement. “Israel did not transfer Patriot systems to Ukraine.”

“These systems are now in Ukraine,” said Ambassador Michael Brodsky in an interview with a Ukrainian YouTube channel on Sunday. “Israeli systems that were in service in the early 1990s, we agreed to transfer them to Ukraine, and unfortunately we did not talk about it very much.”

In May, The New York Times reported that a Patriot system based in Israel would be sent to Ukraine after it is refurbished.

A diplomatic source tells The Times of Israel that interceptor missiles were given by Israel to the US earlier this year, but none have been received by Ukraine.