Ukraine is containing Russia's cheap drones but failing against ballistic missiles, so Kyiv is attacking the ground network that generates strike mass while it races to build a domestic interceptor.
Fire Point has closed agreements with 13 European partners, but national licensing rules now threaten a mid-2027 interceptor that Ukraine needs before Patriot supplies recover.
Trump promised Kyiv a licence to build Patriot missiles, then took it back. The reason sits in a depleted US arsenal and a single Alabama factory, not in the president's mood.