Slovakia has donated its S-300 air defense system to Ukraine, Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on April 8, 2022, a day after the United States said it and 30 other countries were stepping up military aid to Kyiv.

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"I would like to confirm that Slovakia has provided Ukraine with an air-defence system S-300. Ukrainian nation is bravely defending its sovereign country and us too," Heger said in a tweet.

Heger, who was visiting Kyiv on Friday, also said that Slovakia's own defense was secured.

NATO member Slovakia has been operating one battery of the S-300 air defense system, which it inherited after the break-up of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

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