{"id":564912,"date":"2026-07-29T08:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/564912\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:01:14","slug":"zelenskyy-and-trump-discuss-patriot-deal-and-reviving-russian-peace-talks-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/564912\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy and Trump discuss Patriot deal and reviving Russian peace talks | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discussions included joint production of Patriot missiles in Ukraine to bolster defence against Russian aerial attacks.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he held a \u201cgood meeting\u201d with his United States counterpart Donald Trump at the White House, discussing plans for Ukraine to produce Patriot missile interceptors and a revival of peace talks with Russia.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy met Trump privately in the Oval Office on Tuesday, before a service honouring late US Senator Lindsey Graham in the afternoon, the latest sign that the once-frosty relationship between them has significantly improved in recent months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe talked with the president about licences to produce Patriot interceptor missiles in Ukraine,\u201d Zelenskyy said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Trump agreed to allow Ukraine to jointly produce Patriot air defence interceptors, a crucial component of the country\u2019s defence against Russian aerial attacks.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian president said talks also focused on reviving diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia, now in its fifth year.<\/p>\n

The meeting with Trump lasted just over an hour, according to US media. It came on the same day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> was also at the White House for talks with the US president.<\/p>\n

Trump said the meetings with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu were positive, adding that he discussed \u201cmany important subjects\u201d with them.<\/p>\n

Following Graham\u2019s funeral, the Ukrainian leader spoke for nearly an hour with US senators before entering the Senate chamber to witness a key vote on a bipartisan package of new sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n

Graham had long championed the measure and announced Trump\u2019s support just days before his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this vote, we are going to show Putin he can\u2019t bully Ukraine,\u201d US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters. \u201cAmerica stands behind Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X that both encounters were \u201cpositive and productive\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kyiv and Washington are also moving closer to a deal on joint drone production, which could help the US catch up with Ukraine in an important military technology.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is on track to produce six to seven million short-range attack drones this year, while the Pentagon\u2019s $1.1bn production programme is expected to have ordered nearly 200,000 drones by February 2027.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a significant improvement in the countries\u2019 relationship since a disastrous meeting in February last year<\/a>, during which Trump and US Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy, claiming he was insufficiently grateful for US support.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has sharply curtailed new military assistance to Ukraine, leaving Europe as Kyiv\u2019s main source of financial and military support.<\/p>\n

The US has continued to act as a mediator in the war, which began with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

However, diplomatic efforts have slowed recently as Washington focused on other foreign policy priorities.<\/p>\n

Trump and Zelenskyy met several times in recent weeks, including at the NATO summit in Ankara earlier this month and at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains in mid-June.<\/p>\n

At both meetings, the two leaders reaffirmed their support for closer cooperation on the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discussions included joint production of Patriot missiles in Ukraine to bolster defence against Russian aerial attacks. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1153,54,63,42,46,47,2899,43,238,1593,2388,40,38,41,39,1582,1594,1032,1156,3803],"class_list":["post-564912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}