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NATO wrapped its two-day summit in Turkey with a pledge of 70 billion euros ($80 billion) in military aid for Ukraine.

Getting into it: The announcement came in a declaration released as the meetings closed out Wednesday in Ankara, with allies pledging the €70 billion in military equipment, assistance, and training for Ukraine in 2026 and affirming commitments to sustain at least equivalent levels in 2027. The declaration said the allies “stand united in our unwavering support for Ukraine in defending its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity,” with the vast majority of that support now coming from Europe and Canada.

President Trump handed Ukraine another win during his meeting with President Zelenskyy: a license for Ukraine to manufacture its own Patriot missiles, something Zelenskyy formally requested in late May. “We’ll give them the right to make Patriots. We’ll show them how to do it,” Trump said. “I think they can produce them pretty quickly.”

Patriots are regarded as one of the best air defense systems in the world and the most expensive, with a single battery and its missiles running around $1 billion, and only 600 missiles produced per year. Ukraine needs them badly, as Russia has ramped up ballistic missile strikes in recent months. Ukraine’s air force warned earlier this week that it has a “serious shortage” of interceptors and that none of the 23 ballistic missiles Russia fired Sunday night were shot down.

Zelenskyy had been pushing Trump to hand over some Patriots from US supplies, a move that Trump has resisted after reports indicated that the US burned through more than half its stockpile during the war with Iran this year.

There’s skepticism in Kyiv about whether the missiles can actually be built on Ukrainian soil, with military expert Ivan Stupak telling the BBC production would likely be “deployed to European soil instead” since “we have no safe place on the entire Ukrainian territory.”