Trump pledges Patriot missiles to Ukraine, says Nato will pay
'We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need,' Trump said, without specifying how many, just two weeks after Washington said it would pause some arms deliveries to Kyiv.
'I haven't agreed on the number yet, but they're going to have some because they do need protection,' he told reporters.
The weapons delivery will be part of a new deal, which Trump says will involve Nato paying the United States for some of the weapons it sends to Ukraine.
'We basically are going to send them various pieces of very sophisticated military, and they're going to pay us 100 per cent for them,' Trump told reporters.
The US president repeated that he was 'disappointed' in Putin.
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