US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said no agreement has been reached on allowing Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptor missiles domestically, even as Washington continues discussing co-production options with Ukrainian and European partners.Whitaker’s remarks came during an interview on Fox Business broadcast on Monday, Aug. 3. When asked what has changed regarding US-Ukraine cooperation on Patriot production, a question that comes amid Trump’s recent shift in position, he said:JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.“I don’t think anything has changed. I mean, first, remember, air defense is a multilayered, multidimensional situation.”According to Whitaker, Patriot (PAC-3) interceptors “are very controlled export-wise, and we do not allow anybody but US manufacturers to make those.”“But there are co-production opportunities that we can do with Ukrainians, that we can do with Europeans, to increase the industrial base and to support the defense of Ukraine and the defense of Europe,” he continued.Talks ongoing since the Ankara summitAlthough Whitaker said the US is “working on some of those deals” with Ukraine, he stated that he had “nothing to announce this morning” during the interview.According to him, the discussions are consistent with meetings President Volodymyr Zelensky held with US President Donald Trump in Ankara, including follow-up talks in Kyiv two weeks earlier on co-production opportunities with Ukrainian authorities.