Ukraine may have risked exposing a precious Patriot launcher to take out 2 prized Russian planes, experts say

Rajan Menon, a director at the US think tank Defense Priorities, told Business Insider a “leading” theory was that Ukraine had relocated one of its few Patriot surface-to-air missile systems close to the front lines to shoot down the aircraft. He added that Ukraine was unlikely to confirm details like this as it wouldn’t want people to know it was moving Patriots in this way. “These are valuable systems, and they don’t want the Russians to destroy them,” he said.

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