Ukraine said it has waited weeks for the US to sign off on crucial missile interceptors. US Army photo

Kyiv has been waiting nearly a month for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to sign off on crucial missile interceptors, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine has been waiting on approval to procure interceptors for its Patriot and NASAMS systems. The former is the country's most reliable defense against Russian ballistic missiles .

The Ukrainian president said that he instructed his team "to raise this with the American side once again.…