{"id":22252,"date":"2026-07-29T05:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/22252\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:22:21","slug":"zelensky-says-talks-with-trump-include-patriot-production-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/22252\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky says talks with Trump include Patriot production in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9a6ee54c2649b3197aaed63bfbec9d39.jpg\"\/>Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives to the Capitol building, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (PHOTO \/ AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">WASHINGTON \u2013 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday he and US President Donald Trump discussed the production of US-designed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/622065#Ukraine-plans-to-purchase-25-US-Patriot-air-defense-systems-2025-10-21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patriot air defense systems<\/a> in Ukraine and diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict during their meeting at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;The President and I discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor production and several other ideas that could help,&#8221; Zelensky wrote in a post on X after leaving the White House, describing the meeting as &#8220;good&#8221; and thanking the United States for its &#8220;firm support&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We also spoke about diplomacy &#8212; it&#8217;s important that the diplomatic process be reinvigorated,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">US-brokered peace talks aimed at ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict have stalled for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/636580#Kremlin:-Russia-sees-no-quick-prospects-for-Ukraine-talks-2026-07-17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kremlin: Russia sees no quick prospects for Ukraine talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The White House held Trump&#8217;s meeting with Zelensky behind closed doors, with no media access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House later Tuesday, shortly after Zelensky&#8217;s departure. Netanyahu&#8217;s meeting with Trump was also closed to the press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives to the Capitol building, July 28, 2026, in Washington. (PHOTO \/ AP) WASHINGTON&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,1038,598,6278,196,35,1070],"class_list":["post-22252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-meeting","tag-patriot-missiles","tag-ukriane","tag-united-states","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}