Kyiv backs Polish idea to send German Patriot missile system to UkraineThe Ukrainian Air Force has backed a Polish proposal in which Germany hands over to Ukraine Patriot missile batteries it had initially offered to Poland.The German government offered to send Poland the US-made air-defence system to help it secure its airspace after a missile crashed near a Polish village close to the Ukrainian border, killing two people last week.Commenting on the Polish proposal to hand over the Patriot launchers to Ukraine, Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish prime minister, told a press conference on Thursday that this is "a good proposal for the protection of the Polish-Ukrainian border.""I think that the proposal we have made... will protect this strip of land, our border, the western Ukrainian-Polish border and the eastern Polish-Ukrainian border... we are doing everything to ensure the maximum possible security of this part of Poland," Morawiecki said."If the need arises, and if Germany can supply the Patriot batteries in a condition suited to the Polish army's needs, then I think (defence minister - PAP) Mariusz Blaszczak will want to continue these talks in a positive way," Przydacz said."