The US president promised to grant Kiev a license to manufacture the interceptors during the NATO summit in Ankara<\/p>\n
Ukraine is unlikely to start producing its own Patriot air defense missiles despite US President Donald Trump\u2019s promise to grant Kiev the relevant license, Reuters has reported, citing informed sources.
\nDuring the meeting on the sidelines of the recent NATO summit in Ankara, T\u00fcrkiye on Wednesday, Trump told Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky that \u201cwe\u2019re going to give a license to you to make Patriots. That\u2019s pretty cool. This way, you can\u2019t complain that we\u2019re not giving them enough.\u201d However, the president maintained that Washington would not supply the in-demand interceptors directly.
\nReuters reported on Friday that, according to its sources, it isn\u2019t safe for Ukraine to launch the production of Patriot missiles for as long as the fighting persists within its proclaimed borders.
\nThe new interceptors will likely be manufactured in Germany or another European country, two people familiar with the discussions said.
\nThe production could be shifted to Ukraine only after the conflict with Russia ends, they added.<\/p>\n
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US to let Ukraine produce Patriot interceptor missiles \u2013 Trump<\/p>\n
Zelensky has repeatedly blamed the West for the shortage of air defense munitions amid continued Russian missile and drone strikes on military-related targets across Ukraine, which, Moscow says, are being carried out in response to terrorist attacks by Kiev against energy infrastructure and civilians inside Russia.
\nThe US and its allies are experiencing a critical shortage of Patriot missiles due to their heavy use in the Ukraine conflict and the American-Israeli war against Iran. In recent months, Washington had been forced to delay the contracted shipments of the interceptors to some of its customers in Europe and Asia.
\nZelensky said in a post on Telegram on Friday that Trump and him had \u201creached political agreements\u201d on the licenses for the production of the Patriot interceptors in Ukraine. The technical details of the process must now be worked out by the teams from Kiev and Washington, he added.
\nThe Ukrainian leader also claimed that in the coming days Kiev will receive another military aid package from the Americans, which would include an unspecified number of PAC-3 missiles for Patriot systems.
\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Pekov said on Friday that \u201cas for the Patriot, yes, it is an obvious fact that the US is continuing full-scale deliveries of weaponry and military technologies to Ukraine. We know it.\u201d
\n\u201cAt the same time, however, there\u2019s a certain duality in the US position: unlike the Europeans, the US maintains a desire to facilitate a move toward a peace process,\u201d Peskov stressed.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: NATO summit was \u2018humiliating\u2019 for Zelensky \u2013 Moscow<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova insisted that the summit in Ankara was \u201chumiliating\u201d for Zelensky as NATO members \u201coffered no meaningful response\u201d to his pleas to supply more weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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