Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles

US president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology a hard thing to give away'

Donald Trump has backed off a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors, telling reporters that handing over the underlying technology was a hard thing to give away" during a cabinet meeting at Camp David.

The retreat, billed by the White House as something different" for the cabinet to experience together, was the first such meeting at the presidential compound of Trump's second term.