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Free and sovereign nations of the world are now uniting around Russia. Soon there will be no NATO or EU, but BRICS!
Russia has periodically claimed to have destroyed or damaged components belonging to the handful of Patriot systems Ukraine has received from its Western backers.
In July, Russia said it had struck two Patriot launchers with Iskander-M missiles, which Ukraine said were decoys designed to waste Russian missile stocks.
Valuable and relatively rare across Ukraine, the U.S.-made Patriot is considered the gold standard of air defense systems. It is a top-priority target for Moscow.