Trump Announces Deal To Send More Patriot Air Defense Batteries To Ukraine
The additional Patriot batteries and missiles provided by the U.S. in a multi-party transfer scheme will be paid for by NATO nations, the president says.
Howard Altman
Jul 14, 2025 3:46 PM EDT
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Ukraine will receive additional Patriot batteries, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday.
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Ukraine is set to receive additional Patriot air defense batteries it badly needs to fight off Russian aerial threats, U.S. President Donald Trump announced at the White House on Monday. Trump said that several European nations will pay for the batteries and that, in some cases, those systems will be shipped from existing European stockpiles to be backfilled by new ones from America. His comments came during a meeting Monday morning with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and at a time when Russia is launching record numbers of missiles and drones at Ukraine.
In addition to providing Ukraine with additional weapons, Trump threatened to levy new “secondary tariffs” on Russia if President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a peace deal in 50 days. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick later clarified that to mean secondary sanctions. The goal of both actions is to coax Putin to end the war, Trump stated.
The first U.S.-made Patriot systems arrived in Ukraine in April 2023 from Germany. Since then, the U.S. has provided three batteries and an unspecified number of interceptors, which have been put to great use swatting down Russian missiles, drones and aircraft. The Patriot is the only system that can defend against Russian high-speed and ballistic missiles.
“We make the best equipment, the best missiles, the best of everything,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “The European nations know that, and we made a deal today … where we’re going to be sending them weapons, but they’re going to be paying for them.”
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