00:02Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump had told him he would grant Ukraine
00:10a license to build Patriot missiles.
00:12There is concrete confidence that President Trump on the last meeting with me,
00:20said that, yes, I took the final decision on the license for the rocket Patriot that Ukraine receives.
00:29Zelensky and Trump met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier this week.
00:35Kiev has long asked allies to supply more interceptors and has been pushing for a license to produce Patriot missiles
00:42domestically
00:43to counter Russian ballistic missile attacks. At a NATO summit in Ankara in July,
00:49Trump had said he would grant Ukraine the right to make Patriot missiles.
00:53We're going to give a license to you to make Patriots. That's pretty cool, right?
00:58Very.
00:58This way you can't complain that we're not giving them enough. I say, make them yourself.
01:03We haven't informed the company of that yet, but that'll work out all right. Sure, they'll be thrilled.
01:11He appeared to walk back at Promise in late July, telling a cabinet meeting he had not agreed to it.
