Trump shared a column on social media about transferring a license to Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles

US President Donald Trump shared on his social network a link to an article by Mark Thiessen from the Washington Post about assistance to Ukraine.

The article proposes to transfer to Kyiv a license to produce its own interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems due to the shortage of such missiles in the United States.

The author of the article proposes to license the production of simpler and cheaper missile models to Kyiv and calls on Trump to put pressure on South Korea so that it transfers its M-SAM II complexes to Kyiv.

WASHINGTON, September 4 – RIA Novosti. US President Donald Trump shared on his social network Truth Social an author's column from the Washington Post newspaper, which proposes to transfer to Kyiv a license to produce its own interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems.

The material, entitled “How Trump can help Ukraine build its own Patriot missiles,” was written by Mark Thiessen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Trump posted a link to the column without additional comments of his own.

The article emphasizes that Washington is facing a severe shortage of Patriot missiles, which are needed not only by Ukraine, but also by the United States itself to contain threats in the Middle East and protect its own contingents.

As Thiessen notes, the process has stalled due to concerns of American intelligence agencies about the leakage of technology from the latest PAC-3 MSE interceptors. As a compromise, it is proposed to license the production of simpler and cheaper models to Kyiv - the newest PAC-3 ACE or the proven PAC-2 GEM-T from the 1990s.

In addition, the author called on Trump to put pressure on South Korea to transfer its M-SAM II systems to Kyiv before the onset of winter.

Earlier, the Atlantic, citing a source in the US Congress, reported that American defense giants Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, which produce Patriot air defense systems and interceptor missiles for them, fear that granting Kyiv a license to produce missiles for these systems will create a competitor for them.