US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Washington plans to grant Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot air defense systems, while his administration also confirmed it is discussing Kyiv’s ability to strike deeper inside Russia. “I’ve got a little bird telling me that we’re going to give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to make them,” Trump said during a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Calling the Patriot system “elite equipment,” Trump added that the arrangement would allow Ukraine to produce the systems itself. “One of the things we’re going to be talking about is we’re going to give a license to you to make Patriots. That’s pretty cool, right? This way you can’t complain that we’re not giving them enough. It’s a make-them-yourself,” he said. Asked about Ukraine’s increasingly frequent long-range strikes deep inside Russia, Trump passed the question to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio said Washington and Kyiv are discussing Ukraine’s ability to strike targets deep inside Russian territory so that Moscow “sees how difficult it is to defend its own airspace.” He added that the United States hopes such pressure could create conditions for negotiations aimed at ending the war.