The Pentagon has confirmed that the United States is in talks with Ankara to send S-400 missile defense systems to Kyiv, instead offering Turkey to resume US plans to produce fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets and lift sanctions on Ankara. This was reported by Sky News Arabia on Sunday, citing a representative of the Pentagon.
In 2017 Russia and Turkey signed an agreement on the supply of Russian S-400 missile defense systems to Ankara. Turkey was the first NATO country to acquire these systems from Russia. Ankara's decision provoked a negative reaction from the United States and the North Atlantic Alliance. The United States does not stop demanding that Turkey give up its Russian air defense systems; it even excluded the Turkish side from the F-35 program.
Sky News Arabia quotes the same Pentagon official as saying that Slovakia has received a batch of Patriot air defense systems in preparation for the transfer of the Soviet S-300 anti-aircraft defense system in the Slovak Armed Forces to Kyiv.
