Zelenskyy Says Trump Has Decided to Grant Ukraine Patriot License
Zelenskyy said the license could help Ukraine ease a Patriot interceptor shortage as Russia intensifies ballistic missile attacks, with production still expected to take more than a year.
- On Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine secured a new deal for Patriot interceptor missiles, though he declined to name the supplying country or specify quantities.
- Intercept rates reached 60 percent during recent attacks, a modest improvement over July when the Patriot shortage produced a 29 percent rate, creating urgent demand for additional interceptors.
- Since the United States ended large-scale defense funding in 2025, Ukraine has relied on international partners, while supplies face diversion to the Middle East amid competing global conflicts.
- Zelensky disclosed the agreement while addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he met President Donald Trump to discuss urgent air defense needs, though no concrete decisions emerged.
- Securing these interceptors is critical as Kyiv prepares for winter, especially as supplies are diverted to the Middle East due to the ongoing war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran.
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Putin Will Be Mad: Trump Will Now Allow Ukraine to Build Patriot Missile Systems
The saga began in July, when Trump told Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara that the license would be granted. Weeks later, at a Camp David cabinet meeting, he said, "We have not agreed to that," and warned that countries given the technology could one day turn on the U.S. Russia's Sergei Lavrov accused Trump of abandoning the role of objective mediator. A Republican official told The Atlantic that Ukraine would find a way to build Patriots fa…
In early July, Trump dropped that they were going to grant those licenses to Ukraine, but weeks later it seemed to go away.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his counterpart Donald Trump would allow Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles, a key demand as Kiev struggles to defend itself from relentless Russian air strikes. “There are concrete agreements in place,” Zelensky told reporters. “During our last meeting, President Trump stressed that, yes, I have made the final decision: Ukraine will receive a license to produce Patriot missiles.” The two met on the s…
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