Defence Minister Angel Tilvar said on Tuesday in an interview with AGERPRES that he estimates that the contract for the PATRIOT missile-defence system which will replace the one Romania transferred to Ukraine last year will be signed this February, informs Agerpres.
"I want to welcome the fact that, at the end of 2024, the American government made the decision to approve the delivery to Romania of three PATRIOT systems, which were in the program. In addition to these three systems, as concerns the one we donated, which costs approximately 300 million... three fellow NATO states have already contributed financially, with Romania only paying for the transport and probably the VAT for this equipment. We expect the contract-signing for this system to take place in February," the minister said, noting that things are moving quickly, in line with the authorities' estimates when they made "the Parliament-backed decision to make this donation".
DefMin Tilvar explained that the transfer of a PATRIOT system to Ukraine "was a country decision".
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