Merz: Germany prepared to buy Patriots from U.S. for Ukraine

ROME, July 10 (Reuters) - Germany is prepared to buy Patriot air defence systems from the United States and provide them to Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Rome on Thursday.

"We are also prepared to purchase additional Patriot systems from the U.S. to make them available to Ukraine," Merz said at a conference on Ukraine support, where he discussed air defence with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other leaders.

Merz said he asked U.S. President Donald Trump last week to deliver the Patriots, adding, "The Americans need some of them themselves, but they also have a lot of them. ... It has not yet been finalised whether a delivery will be made."