Zelensky says Trump has made a "final decision" to let Ukraine produce Patriot missiles

The Ukrainian president did not indicate whether the announced agreement covers PAC-2 or PAC-3 interceptors, according to Kyiv Post.

The PAC-2 systems are produced in the United States and under license in Germany; some are set to arrive in Ukraine starting from 2027. The more advanced PAC-3 systems are manufactured only in the United States and Japan.

On July 8, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump had promised, according to the Ukrainian press: "We're going to give them the right to manufacture Patriots. We're going to show them how to do it." At the time, he believed Kyiv could produce them "fairly quickly".

On July 31, in a cabinet meeting, he backtracked, according to Le Monde and Sud Ouest: "You give them this technology and one day they can turn against you."

In early September, according to the Portuguese press, Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated that Washington was negotiating this license with Kyiv.

On the same day, according to G1 Globo Mundo, Zelensky indicated that the United States had proposed a trilateral meeting with Russia, scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates, at a solely technical level, without the leaders of the two countries.

G1 also notes a reaction from the Kremlin on the same day, without specifying its content.

According to Aftonbladet, two people died in Odessa in a fire at a postal terminal, the same night as the strike on Kiev. Moscow accuses Kiev of a strike that killed three people in Zaporijjia, which is under Russian control.

In August, still according to Aftonbladet, Zelensky estimated Ukraine's needs at 5% of the US stock of Patriot missiles to get through the winter, and at 10% to neutralize all Russian ballistic missiles.