BRUSSELS, Dec 3 – Ukraine urgently needs an additional 19 air defense systems to protect certain Ukrainian strategic energy facilities, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said.

"We urgently need an additional 19 air defense systems to protect certain of our strategic energy facilities. We are confident that with the help of our allies, we will survive the winter, having received these systems for the proper protection of these 19 facilities," Sybiha said during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Brussels, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reports.