Washington to send another Patriot missile system to Ukraine: US media

The United States will send another Patriot missile air defence system to Ukraine in the coming days, US media reported, citing unnamed administration and military officials.

News of the decision to provide the advanced system came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded on Tuesday for more air defences at the start of an intense week of diplomatic meetings with Western partners.

Zelenskyy has recently called for several additional Patriot systems, including two to defend the eastern Kharkiv region, where Russia has recently been pressing a new offensive.

"Russia's greatest strategic advantage over Ukraine is superiority in the sky. It is missile and bomb terror that helps Russian troops advance on the ground," Zelenskyy told a reconstruction conference in Berlin Tuesday.

"Air defence is the answer," he added.

https://www.trtworld.com/us-and-canada/washington-to-send-another-patriot-missile-system-to-ukraine-us-media-18172350

Trump-backed Austin Theriault wins GOP House primary in Maine district rocked by mass shooting

LEWISTON, Maine — Republican state lawmaker Austin Theriault, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won the chance to try to unseat one of the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives in a Maine district rocked by a mass shooting last year.

Theriault, of Fort Kent, defeated fellow Maine House member Mike Soboleski, of Phillips, who is also a supporter of Trump.

Theriault will face three-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which has handed an electoral vote to Trump in the last two elections. The district was also the site of a mass shooting that killed 18 in Lewiston in October.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/11/austin-theriault-wins-gop-house-primary-in-maine-d/