U.S. President Donald Trump said he would grant Ukraine a license to produce its own Patriot interceptor missiles, but he walked the offer back hours before Russia's latest ballistic missile strike hit Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Ukraine has run out of interceptor missiles for its US Patriot air defence systems.

Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles early on August 1, even as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed for the Washington to grant licenses for Kyiv to…