“There are concrete agreements regarding Patriot licenses,” Zelenskyy posted online. “At our meeting, President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles.”
Ukraine has repeatedly asked Washington for domestic Patriot production rights to strengthen its air defenses. Zelenskyy told CNN in August that Ukraine had only 10 percent of the interceptor missiles required to counter Russian attacks.
Russian forces have recently intensified strikes on Ukraine’s power grid using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones. The attacks come ahead of the winter season.
President Trump and I had a meeting where we discussed general matters. After that, our negotiating teams held a separate, long meeting. The agreement is as follows: we will brief the European side and discuss these details with them; the Americans will speak with the Russians;…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) September 25, 2026
Patriot interceptors can take more than two years to manufacture because of their technical complexity. The article said supplies were also strained by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.
Trump said during a NATO summit in Turkey in July that the United States would allow Ukraine to co-produce Patriot missiles. The effort appeared to stall shortly afterward.
Zelenskyy later said Ukraine was considering work with U.S. defense contractors to reconfigure Ukrainian-made ballistic missiles as Patriot interceptors. The proposal followed meetings with representatives of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon in Washington.
Zelenskyy also said the Trump administration had proposed trilateral talks involving the United States, Ukraine and Russia. The United Arab Emirates was suggested as the venue, but Moscow had made no commitment to participate.
“We will brief the European side and discuss these details with them, the Americans will talk to the Russians, and in 10 days’ time we will return with a particular perspective and a result,” Zelenskyy told reporters. The proposal calls for separate consultations between Ukraine and its European partners and between Washington and Moscow.
Source: The Hill.
