Italy will deliver a second SAMP/T air defense battery to Ukraine by the end of September, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Sept. 17. Italy promised in June to send Kyiv anotherSAMP/T system, the only European-made air defense system that can intercept ballistic missiles. “By the end of the month the new Samp/T system will be delivered to Ukraine, and we know how much every minute of delay costs,” Crosetto said at a conference on European air defense production, according to the Italian media outlet RAI. The announcement comes over a week after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s vis…