Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland

2:00 am

H.E. Ms Larysa Gerasko:

It seems to me they are interceptor drones, they are just to intercept these Russian drones so it is different. The point is we do not have enough air defence systems like Patriots, for instance. We could not protect all civilians or objects of infrastructure either. Even to use these air defence systems like Patriots would be very complicated because there are different types of drones. They are different sizes. We do not use Patriots for smaller drones, for instance. It is much better to use interceptor drones, which are smaller, to intercept them in the air and not allow them to target and hit -----