Trump says he’ll give Ukraine the right to make Patriot missiles

President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday he would grant Kyiv a license to make its own critically needed Patriot air-defense missiles, joking: “This way, you can’t complain that we’re not giving them enough.”

“One of the things I think we’re going to be talking about today, a little birdie told me this, about the fact that we’ll give them the right to make Patriots,” Trump said ahead of his closed-door sitdown with Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey.

Patriot missiles have long been in short supply, but now are running critically low — forcing Ukraine in recent days to let Russian missiles strike Kyiv without interception.

At least 22 people died and 56 were injured in those strikes.

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