(Axios) Barak Ravid - The U.S. military transferred 90 Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel to Poland last week in order to deliver them to Ukraine. Last April, the Israeli Air Force officially decommissioned the Patriot air defense system, more than 30 years after it was first given to Israel during the first Gulf War. The system became less relevant as Israel developed its own air defense systems. A senior Israeli official told me Israel informed Russia in advance of the move and stressed it was "only returning the Patriot system to the U.S." and not supplying weapons to Ukraine. Israel told Russia it was a similar move to the one the U.S. made two years ago when it transferred artillery shells from emergency storage in Israel to Ukraine.
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