The signing of the landmark minerals deal between Ukraine and the Trump administration is greasing the wheels on the Biden-era initiative of sending more air defense system support to Ukraine to help fight off Russia.

A Patriot air-defense system in Israel is getting refurbished and repurposed to Ukraine, and the Western allies are working logistics for Germany or Greece to send more Patriots, four sources told The New York Times.

“President Trump has been clear: He wants the war in Ukraine to end and the killing to stop,” National Security Council spokesman James Hewitt told the Times, declining to comment on the specifics of the report.

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