U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Washington will permit Kyiv to produce missiles for the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine.
"I think we're going to make that deal," Trump said, speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara.
"We're going to give a licence to you to make Patriots," he said. "It's very complex, actually, but ... you'll figure out the complexity quickly."
"Most countries would not be able, they don't have the talent. You have very talented people. So, yeah, I think we're going to make that deal," Trump added, praising the abilities of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The U.S. president, who met Zelenskyy on the sidelines of a NATO summit in the Turkish capital, said he thinks Ukraine will be able to produce the missiles "pretty quickly."
