France's Minister for the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu (left) and French CEO of Iliad group and Free Telecom Xavier Niel attend the seventh "Choose France Summit", aiming to attract foreign investors to the country, at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris, on May 13, 2024.
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Paris: France will send a new batch of Aster surface-to-air missiles to supply the Franco-Italian SAMP/T-MAMBA air defence system defending Kyiv, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday.
"I can perhaps announce to you that I have just signed a second batch of Aster missiles precisely to allow the SAMP-T that we gave with our Italian partners to continue to operate, since we are talking of intercepting Russian missiles which can attack Kiev," Lecornu said in a parliamentary hearing.