Greece has the Russian S300 surface-to-air-missile system. Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin, CC BY-SA 4.0/WikipediaA US retired general has advised Ukraine on Monday to ask Greece, Bulgaria and Slovakia to offer their Russian S300 surface-to-air-missile system to help defend against the Russian invasion.
Speaking on Fox News Keith Kellogg, formerly the national security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, remarked that if the West won’t let Ukraine have additional MiG fighter jets to fend off Kremlin attackers, they should seek projectile-based help from certain NATO-member countries.
The general said two Balkan countries, Greece and Bulgaria, along with fellow NATO member Slovakia, all have S300 missile technology that itself was originally designed by Moscow.
Ukraine could use a Russian system to shoot down a Russian aircraft
“The thing they should do is go to Bulgaria, Slovakia and Greece, which are three NATO nations, and they’ve got a system called the S300, which is a Russian system that shoots down ballistic missiles and anti-aircraft [projectiles] as well, and put it around those point-targets and defend it,” he said.
Kellogg said the S300 has the “slant range” to accurately strike up to eight targets at a distance between Richmond and Washington, DC, a straight line of about 105 miles.
