$400 million U.S. military package for Ukraine will not include interceptors

The Trump administration has formally obligated $307 million of a $400 million Ukraine military aid package approved by Congress in late 2025, with plans to commit the remaining $93 million before the Sept. 30 fiscal-year deadline, Reuters reported, citing three sources. Missing the deadline would have let the funding expire; the equipment itself doesn't have to arrive until years later, with some deliveries expected as late as October 2029.

A source told Reuters the package excludes Patriot interceptor missiles, despite Ukraine facing what Zelenskyy calls a near-daily need for them against Russian ballistic attacks. Global Patriot stocks are strained by both the Ukraine war and the separate U.S. conflict with Iran, and the Pentagon has repeatedly slow-walked deliveries over concerns about its own inventories.

Zelenskyy says Trump made a “final decision” to license Ukrainian domestic production of Patriot missiles, though he didn't specify which interceptor types or offer a timeline. Ukraine separately says it secured a new batch of interceptors from an unnamed partner, which is one way of saying the country is patching its air defense together from whoever will answer the phone.

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