Rubio: Washington and Kyiv negotiating licenses to produce Patriot missiles in Ukraine
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- The United States and Ukraine are negotiating licenses that would allow Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles domestically, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
- Rubio said the plan could take several years because Ukraine would need to build factories and expand production capacity.
- He added that U.S. production and stockpiles face heavy demand, particularly in the Middle East, limiting supplies for Ukraine in the short term.
The United States and Ukraine are negotiating a plan that could eventually allow Kyiv to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, but Marco Rubio warned that it would not solve Ukraine’s immediate needs.
That is what is being negotiated now.
Speaking to Fox News, the U.S. secretary of state said the two countries were discussing licenses for production in Ukraine. “That is what is being negotiated now,” Rubio said.
He cautioned that even if the talks succeed, expanding output would take several years because factories would have to be built. Rubio described the missiles as “extremely sophisticated weapons” and said the licensing discussions would therefore offer no quick answer to Ukraine’s demand for air-defense ammunition.
It is not a current solution because even with a license, increasing production capacity would take several years, due to the time needed to build factories.
Rubio said air-defense missiles are in particularly high demand in the Middle East. He identified U.S. manufacturing capacity and existing stockpiles as the main obstacles to supplying them, leaving Ukraine facing limits in the short term despite the proposed longer-term production arrangement.
It is extremely sophisticated weaponry.
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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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