US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Washington plans to grant Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot air defense systems, while his administration also confirmed it is discussing Kyiv’s ability to strike deeper inside Russia.

“I’ve got a little bird telling me that we’re going to give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to make them,” Trump said during a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

Calling the Patriot system “elite equipment,” Trump added that the arrangement would allow Ukraine to produce the systems itself.

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