Zelenskiy: licenses for Patriot agreed with US at political level, interceptors to be delivered

Ukraine and the United States have reached a political agreement on licences for production of PAC-3 Patriot interceptors, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday, adding that key supplies of the missiles were to arrive in the next few days.

The Patriot is a U.S.-made air defense system. Its PAC-3 interceptor – short for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 – is one of the few Western weapons capable of shooting down the ballistic missiles Russia has increasingly fired at Ukrainian cities....