S-300 missiles could be sent to Ukraine

The prospect of obtaining a battery of surface-to-air Patriot missiles from the United States allows Greece to reconsider lifting its objections to providing Ukraine with the idling Soviet-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles now based on the island of Crete.

Greece's objections to requests by Ukraine and the US were partly based on a political calculus - not to upset an already suspicious Russia too much - but also the reluctance of the Americans to deliver a Patriot battery in exchange. But there have been numerous talks about the exchange recently, and Wednesday's explosion of a Russian missile in Odesa, a few hundred meters from where Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has made Greece less inclined to heed Russian warnings.

But some Greek officials are still dubious about offering Ukraine the S-300s...