{"id":73123,"date":"2026-07-10T00:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2026\/07\/10\/testing-is-now-underway-zelenskyy-confirms-progress-on-major-us-defense-deals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:23:35","slug":"testing-is-now-underway-zelenskyy-confirms-progress-on-major-us-defense-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2026\/07\/10\/testing-is-now-underway-zelenskyy-confirms-progress-on-major-us-defense-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Testing is now underway\u2019: Zelenskyy confirms progress on major US defense deals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 The United States is already testing Ukrainian-made aerial and maritime drones and has given Kyiv \u201cvery positive feedback,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, the clearest sign yet that a long-stalled drone-production deal with Washington worth billions is moving ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confirmation came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara pledged the U.S. would give Ukraine a license to build its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2026\/07\/08\/ukraine-to-get-license-for-making-patriot-interceptors-trump-pledges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Patriot interceptors<\/a>, a long-sought goal for Kyiv as a global shortage of the missiles and intensifying Russian strikes leave its cities exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy stopped short of tying the license to the multibillion-dollar drone deal, presenting the two as separate tracks working towards the same general goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are some documents that have already been signed so that the American side can receive from Ukraine various types of systems in which the United States is interested for testing,\u201d Zelenskyy said in response to a question by Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd they are receiving these from us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv pitched the multibillion-dollar drone partnership to Washington more than a year ago and has waited for a sign-off that never came, with U.S. officials publicly cool on it as recently as last month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy\u2019s account that the testing is underway and going well is the first real movement on the deal in months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He named \u201caerial drones, maritime drones and other technological items\u201d as the systems already changing hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat testing is now underway, and that we are receiving very positive feedback, is a fact,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter this, we will move to another, next stage, to the drone deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2026\/06\/22\/kyivs-drone-leverage-moved-the-us-moscow-could-be-next-a-top-ukrainian-official-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">drone deal<\/a>, a partnership Zelenskyy has valued at $35 billion to $50 billion, would reportedly set up a 50-50 production venture with the U.S. drawing on up to 200 Ukrainian companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that deal remains unsigned, held up for months awaiting Trump\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyy pointed to Ukraine\u2019s wartime standing, calling its defense industry \u201cat NATO level, and already one of the best\u201d and saying Kyiv is \u201cready to share our own development and technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days before the summit, the cost of the shortage was written in the rubble of Kyiv after Russia fired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/russias-missile-and-drone-attacks-on-ukraine-kill-at-least-22-in-the-kyiv-region\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/russias-missile-and-drone-attacks-on-ukraine-kill-at-least-22-in-the-kyiv-region\">68 missiles and 351 drones at Ukraine<\/a> overnight, according to Ukrainian Air Force officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shortage that makes a Ukrainian Patriot line so appealing sharpened this spring, when the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran burned through American interceptor stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gulf defenses fired as many as 1,430 Patriot interceptors in 39 days, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/iran-war-cost-estimate-update-113-billion-day-6-165-billion-day-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">CSIS analysis<\/a> found, draining inventories Ukraine had counted on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By late April, Ukrainian crews were rationing mid-attack, firing one interceptor at incoming ballistics instead of the standard two to four to stretch what remained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said the Patriot force was down to a \u201cstarvation ration,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/euromaidanpress.com\/2026\/04\/28\/ukraines-patriot-systems-are-on-a-starvation-ration-air-force-spox-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Euromaidan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even while minimizing the use of interceptors, Ukrainian air defenses downed roughly 92% of the Shaheds Russia launched in May, according to the Air Force, and cheap interceptor drones now do more of that work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2026\/06\/22\/kyivs-drone-leverage-moved-the-us-moscow-could-be-next-a-top-ukrainian-official-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">built 100,000 of those drones in 2025<\/a> and doubled the pace in the first four months of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/proshu-shob-bilsha-rishuchist-i-bilshe-rishen-shodo-ppo-stal-105313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/proshu-shob-bilsha-rishuchist-i-bilshe-rishen-shodo-ppo-stal-105313\">Zelenskyy proposed a formal \u201cDrone Deal Initiative\u201d at NATO\u2019s Ankara summit<\/a> on July 7, several countries had already signed bilateral drone agreements with Kyiv. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also arrived with a NATO intelligence assessment endorsed by all 32 members that Russia could invade a member state by 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine\u2019s mission chief to NATO, Alyona Getmanchuk, told allies in Brussels on July 2 that Ukraine helps guide the alliance\u2019s only <a 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