US Envoy Whitaker Says No Patriot Missile Production Deal Yet for Ukraine

US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said Washington has not finalized any deal allowing Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, even as talks on co-production with Ukrainian and European partners continue. He said the immediate priority is speeding up air defense deliveries before winter.

The Pentagon said that the production of Patriots will triple and THAAD systems quadruple under a framework deal.

The US has faced growing concerns over its air defense and precision-guided weapon inventories

The US has signed a more than US$3 billion deal with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to ramp up production of Patriot and ‌THAAD interceptor missile parts, as conflicts in Iran and Ukraine strain stockpiles. The deal, announced by the Pentagon and Northrop on Monday, follows last week’s announcement of a contract

US signs deal to boost Patriot and THAAD missile parts production  reuters.com

Despite previously publicly announcing that he would grant Kyiv the license to the surface-to-air interceptor missiles, Trump told the FT that he was “not sure” about the license.

At least nine people died, and more than 20 were injured after Russia struck Ukraine's capital with ballistic missiles. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blames a lack of interceptor missiles for the deaths.

The president of Ukraine had warned that the country was running out of Patriot interceptors, the most reliable weapon it has to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles.

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States has not agreed to Ukraine building Patriot missiles but that talks are ongoing, adding that the US must be "very careful about letting somebody build them."

US president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology ‘a hard thing to give away’ Donald Trump has backed off a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors, telling reporters that handing over the underlying technology was “a hard thing to give away” during a cabinet

Trump changes stance on letting Ukraine build PatriotUS President Donald Trump said Friday that Washington has not agreed to Ukraine producing Patriot surface-to-air interceptor missiles, walking back earlier signals that Kyiv would be granted a production licence."We have not agreed to that," Trump said, adding that t

Earlier this month, Trump offered to license Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. hasn't agreed to grant Ukraine licenses to produce Patriot missile systems.

President Donald Trump has not decided whether he will let Ukraine produce Patriot interceptor missiles, he told the Financial Times, despite agreements Washington and Kyiv had previously announced.

US president had earlier said he would allow the country to produce the weapon vital for its defence against Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on July 8 to grant Ukraine licenses to produce its own Patriot interceptors, but those permits haven’t been issued

Ukraine is looking to other allies for vital supplies of air-defense missiles after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House visit this week yielded no pledge of new supplies, Kyiv’s ambassador to Washington said.