President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has discussed Patriot missile transfers and production, as well as Ukraine’s “Drone Deal” proposal, with US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker in Kyiv on Wednesday. Zelensky said Whitaker was accompanied by US Lt. Gen. Curtis Buzzard, the commander of NATO Security Assistance & Training for Ukraine.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In his X update, Zelensky said the parties “had a good talk,” with the discussions centering on the transfer of US-made Patriot air defense missiles via NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program, in which Kyiv’s allies bankroll US weaponry for the country. “We had a good talk – first and foremost on how to protect Ukrainian skies with more Patriot interceptor supplies through PURL. This is a critical priority now, as massive Russian attacks continue unabated,” Zelensky said. Russia attacked Kyiv over the weekend with around 40 ballistic missiles, with estimates suggesting that the missiles launched in July thus far had exceeded Moscow’s known monthly production number. As for the Patriot’s licensed production in Ukraine, Zelensky said the parties had a discussion about it without going into details. US President Donald Trump announced the plan on July 8 during the NATO summit in Ankara for Kyiv to make the latest-generation PAC-3 Patriot missiles, making it the only country outside of the US to be granted the license to do so after Japan.