The United States of America asks countries that have Patriot air defense systems to transfer some of them to Ukraine to protect it from Russian attacks, according to the Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin. “There are countries that have Patriots, and so what we’re doing is continuing to engage those countries. I have talked to the leaders of several countries myself here in the last two weeks, encouraging them to give up more capability or provide more capability,” he said. At the same time, the Pentagon chief did not specify the countries with which he discussed assistance to Ukraine but said he wo…