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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh in London and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Ukraine calls for Patriot missiles to defend its grid and stop rise in refugees

The US MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system
The US MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system of the sort needed to knock out Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. Photograph: Tytus Żmijewski/EPA

Ukraine has called for the west to supply Patriot missiles batteries and other modern air defence systems, amid growing concern that attacks by Russia on its electricity grid could prompt a new wave of refugees from the wartorn country.

The country’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, speaking on Monday before a Ukraine humanitarian aid conference the following day in Paris, said Russia wanted “to trigger another wave of migration toward Europe” during the depths of winter.

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