Pence: Stopping ballistic attacks in Ukraine will ‘take the last fighting tool out of Vladimir Putin’s hands’

Pence and Zelensky urged urgent Patriot/THAAD missile-defense support so Ukraine can better stop Russian ballistic and cruise strikes.
Zelensky is pressing for access to U.S. Patriot interceptors and licenses to co-produce them—Washington approved a license, but building stocks will take years.
Pence dismissed worries that U.S. interceptor shortages are hurting Ukraine, even as analysts warn depleted stocks and Ukrainians fear winter attacks on energy infrastructure.