{"id":23388,"date":"2026-08-01T02:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/23388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:43:19","slug":"trump-says-us-hasnt-agreed-to-ukraine-building-patriot-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/23388\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US hasn\u2019t agreed to Ukraine building Patriot missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on \u2060Friday that America has not agreed to Ukraine building Patriot missiles, but that talks are ongoing, adding that the US must be \u201cvery careful about letting somebody build them\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey this \u200cmonth that he was going to give Ukraine a licence to manufacture Patriot missile interceptors to help defend against Russian strikes, but has since backed away from that pledge despite hosting Zelensky at the White House this week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Asked about the Patriot missiles during a cabinet meeting at the Camp David retreat on Friday, Trump emphasised concerns about sharing advanced US weaponry including missile technology.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s \u2060a big step,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIn the case of President Zelensky, he\u2019d like to have some Patriots, he\u2019d \u200clike to have some Tomahawks, which are, you know, lethal \u2013 one offensive, one defensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man looks at a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement model by Lockheed Martin at an international military fair in Kielce, Poland, in September 2017. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/74eb24ee-a1e2-48de-81f0-665925bb9e1a_c1e3f8e3.jpg\" title=\"A man looks at a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement model by Lockheed Martin at an international military fair in Kielce, Poland, in September 2017. Photo: Reuters\"\/>A man looks at a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement model by Lockheed Martin at an international military fair in Kielce, Poland, in September 2017. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cYou have to be very judicious, but you have to \u200cbe very careful. Now we have not agreed to that,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on \u2060Friday that America has not agreed to Ukraine building Patriot missiles, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8458,43,6304,8409,598,3720,533,1270,25,8457,1022,26,3775,196,1070],"class_list":["post-23388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-camp-david","tag-donald-trump","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-olha-stefanishyna","tag-patriot-missiles","tag-pentagon","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-zelensky","tag-russia","tag-tomahawks","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23388","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=23388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}