Ukraine Gets More Patriot Air Defense  11/03 06:21

   Ukraine has received more American-made Patriot air defense systems to help 
it counter Russia's daily barrages, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as 
Russian drones killed a man and injured five of his family members, including 
two children, in the latest nighttime attack.

   KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine has received more American-made Patriot air 
defense systems to help it counter Russia's daily barrages, President Volodymyr 
Zelenskyy said, as Russian drones killed a man and injured five of his family 
members, including two children, in the latest nighttime attack.

   Russia's relentless pounding of urban areas behind the front line following 
its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago has killed thousands 
of civilians. It has also targeted the energy supply to deny civilians heat and 
running water in winter, as well as disrupt industrial production of Ukraine's 
newly developed drones and missiles.

   The sophisticated Patriot systems are the most effective weapon against 
Russian missiles. Zelenskyy has pleaded with Western partners to provide more 
of them, but production limitations and the need to maintain stockpiles have 
slowed their delivery.

   "More Patriots are now in Ukraine and being put into operation," Zelenskyy 
said on social media late Sunday. "Of course, more systems are needed to 
protect key infrastructure sites and our cities across the entire territory of 
our state."

   He thanked Germany and its Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the Patriots. 
Germany said three months ago it would deliver two more Patriot air defense 
systems to Ukraine. It agreed to the move after securing assurances that the 
U.S. will prioritize the delivery of new Patriots to Germany to backfill its 
stocks. Patriot systems are made only in the U.S.

   NATO is coordinating regular deliveries of large weapons packages to 
Ukraine. European allies and Canada are buying much of the equipment from the 
United States, which has greater stocks of ready military materiel, as well as 
more effective weapons. The Trump administration is not giving any arms to 
Ukraine, unlike the previous Biden administration.

   Russia launched 12 missiles of various types and 138 strike and decoy drones 
at Ukraine overnight from Sunday to Monday, Ukraine's air force said. On some 
nights it has fired many hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine.

   In Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, Russian drones hit a house where they 
killed a man and injured five members of his family, authorities said. Two 
women were also injured in a separate Sumy attack.

   "The Russians cynically targeted people -- deliberately, at night, while 
they were sleeping," regional head Oleh Hryhorov wrote on Telegram in response 
to the attacks.

   Russian missiles started a fire at a business in the central Dnipro region, 
injuring one man, regional head Vladyslav Haivanenko said.

   Russian drones have also struck energy infrastructure in the southern 
Mykolaiv region.

   At the same time, Ukraine has been trying to constrain Russia's oil 
industry, a mainstay of its economy.

   Ukrainian forces struck Russia's Saratov oil refinery overnight and started 
a fire, according to Ukraine's general staff. It was Ukraine's fourth attack on 
the Saratov installation in almost seven weeks.

   The refinery, located some 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the Ukrainian 
border, can process several million metric tons of oil a year.

   Zelenskyy claimed last week that long-range strikes on Russian refineries 
have reduced Moscow's oil refining capacity by 20%.