Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv reaches ‘political’ agreement with US on Patriot interceptor production licences

Key supplies of interceptors to arrive in the next few days, as talks also continue on a ‘drone deal’, Zelenskyy says. What we know on day 1,598 Ukraine and the US have reached a political agreement on licences for production ⁠of PAC-3 Patriot interceptors , president Volodymyr ⁠Zelenskyy said on Thursday, adding ​that key supplies of the missiles were to arrive in the next few days. The Patriot is a US-made air defence system. Its PAC-3 interceptor is one of the few western weapons ⁠capable of shooting down the ballistic missiles Russia has increasingly fired at Ukrainian cities. Zelenskyy, s

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