US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Washington would grant Kyiv "the right to make" prized Patriot air-defence systems to repel deadly Russian strikes, without providing a timeline for the pledge. Ukraine has been struggling to down Russian ballistic missiles since this year's US-Israeli war against Iran drained global supplies of the crucial US-made Patriot interceptors. "So one of the things we're going to be talking about is we're going to give a licence to you to make Patriots. That's pretty cool, right," Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara. "We haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll work out all right," he said, without elaborating. Read moreLive: Trump hails NATO ‘unity’ as alliance members step up defence spending Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the interceptor missiles that go in the Patriot system. It was not clear whether missiles would be manufactured in Ukraine or in another country. "It's a defensive weapon, which I like better than an offensive weapon," Trump said
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