US president Donald Trump said the US plans to provide Ukraine with licence to produce US-made Patriot air defence interceptors.
Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump said Washington would give Kyiv “the right to make Patriots”, referring to the long‑range air defence missiles Kyiv has repeatedly requested to protect its cities and energy grid from Russian strikes.
“We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump said, describing the system as “very complex” but insisting Kyiv would “figure out the complexity quickly”.
He said US industry was already building “four plants” and claimed that “all of our companies will be able to do this in two to three months”, contrasting this with the lengthy delivery times currently faced by allies placing new Patriot orders.
Kyiv has been asking the US for over half a year to provide its with license to be able to make Patriot interceptor missiles in Ukraine, but Washington had so far refused.
