President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States will give a license to Ukraine for Patriot missiles, as he said both Russia and Ukraine want to see the war settled.

"We're going to give a license to you to make Patriots," Trump said at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Ankara.

Zelenskyy has repeatedly pleaded for ⁠the U.S.-made interceptors — the only weapon in Ukraine's arsenal that can shoot down ballistic projectiles, whose high velocity and steep ⁠flight path make them difficult to stop.

He was expected to raise the issue with Trump during their meeting.

Trump said both sides in the war would like to see it end, but Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy have both been "difficult."

"We've settled a lot of wars, and this one is the one that I thought maybe would be the easiest, but Putin is a difficult character, and this guy's a difficult ⁠character," Trump said, referring to Zelenskyy, who was sitting ⁠next to him.

Zelenskyy said he wanted to discuss "some very important details" with ⁠Trump. "I'm sure ⁠you will do everything to stop this war," he told Trump.

Moscow has stepped up its air war on Ukraine in recent months as its ground advances have largely stalled, and Ukrainian attacks on its military logistics and oil industry triggered widespread fuel shortages.

Russia fired ballistic missiles at Kyiv again overnight, officials said on Wednesday, a third attack on the Ukrainian capital in less than a week, exploiting Ukraine's critical shortage of U.S.-made air-defense interceptors.