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Ukraine needs Greece's S-300 missiles and will not get them

8/23/2026

Ukraine still needs air-defense interceptors, the missiles fired upward to destroy incoming rockets and drones before they reach the ground.

Greece holds a stockpile of them, attached to a relatively modern S-300 variant called the PMU-1 that Athens acquired in the late 1990s, and those weapons could help Ukraine's defenses.

The PMU-1 is one variant within the S-300 family, a surface-to-air missile system with Soviet-era origins. Greece picked up its version, along with the interceptor missiles that go with it, during the late 1990s.

That timing places the hardware on the more recent end of the S-300 spectrum, which is why it is worth noting at all. Greece still possesses the system. It still holds the interceptor stockpiles.

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