US President Donald Trump plans to put American aid to Ukraine on pause. The exact scale is not known, but we will talk about that further assistance, as Joe Biden ordered to see another one.
RBC-Ukraine wrote in the material below everything that is immediately known about it.
Contents
- What do we know about the reduced assistance to Ukraine from the United States?
- What happened during the “pause”
- The US pushed Yaku Viyskov to help him until the pause
- The reaction of the republicans is ambiguous
- How Ukraine reacts
- The US praised the decision without consulting its allies
What do we know about the reduced assistance to Ukraine from the United States?
The fact that the administration of US President Donald Trump has suspended the supply of all military aid to Ukraine was reported by the low number of reports sent to the White House representative. At the moment, there was no official announcement about such a decision, although Trump himself did not explicitly announce it.
There is currently a shortage of ammunition, transportation and other equipment, including supplies, for the term of US President Joe Biden.
“The President (Trump – ed.) has made it clear that there are no dangers in the world. We need our partners to also be committed to this. We acknowledge and look forward to our assistance in order to overcome this “sweets the cherries,” Posadovets told the Voice of America to help Ukraine.
About the fact that the United States is putting a pause on military assistance to Ukraine, “until President Trump believes that the Ukrainians are demonstrating an aptitude for good-faith peace negotiations,” the Republican Fox News channel also reported.
A senior Trump administration official told Fox News that “it’s not just a rest of help, it’s a pause.” About the reduction of military aid to Ukraine, Bloomberg also wrote about the letter from the US Department of Defense.
The information agency reported that all US military equipment that is not in Ukraine will be affected, including armored vehicles that are in transit on planes and ships or in transit zones near Poland.
As ZMI writes, the American president ordered US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to withdraw from a significant decision, which was praised by Trump after his visit to the White House, which was attended by not only the head of the Pentagon, but also Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and Trump's special representative at the Close Gathering Stiv Vitkoff.
“The President made it clear that there are no worries in the world. We need our partners to also be committed to this. We are grateful and look forward to our assistance in order to overcome what is going on here.” “Virishennu,” wrote the Washington Post in a letter sent to a representative of the White House.
CNN also wrote about the envoys to Dzherel that the reduction in assistance is a means for the Trump administration to obtain public compensation from Zelensky for welding in the Oval Office.
Politico appreciates that the order for the latest military aid came only a few years after Trump told reporters that he had never discussed such a pause – and three days after the super-recession in the Ovalny office of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Just under the hour of welding, Di Vance expressed dissatisfaction with “their support” on the side of the President of Ukraine for the assistance given, and Trump said in his own words that Zelensky is playing in a “third world war” and stated that Kiev “is not I can't help but overcome Russia without constant help from the United States.
“Trump also made it clear in public comments on Monday that the economical benefit for which Zelensky came to Washington is deprived of decorum. “More serious negotiations to resolve the conflict with the Russian Federation,” according to the Politico article.
What happened during the “pause”
The Guardian writes that it has decided to stop all aid that has previously been approved by the United States and has not yet been transferred. Trump did not praise the yearly new assistance to Kiev from the moment he took over.
Journalists explain that they are talking about American assistance, which is not in Ukraine, keeping an eye on the security, which is being transported by planes and ships, or checks in transit zones near Poland. This timeframe, as Bloomberg writes, includes the delivery of critical ammunition, hundreds of ceramic-coated multiple launch rocket systems, anti-tank armor and other features.
The exact scale of the explosion is not yet known. According to Bloomberg, the article predicts that Trump, with the arrival of the White House, has 3.85 billion dollars, which was lost from the previous administration as part of the so-called presidential renewal due to the shortening of American reserves.
“It has become unreasonable that the Trump administration is rightfully devoting money to Ukraine, especially in view of the fact that reserves from the United States will be drawn up and will require more,” the material reads.
In this case, if the United States terminates existing contracts with manufacturers, it can transfer payment as compensation to those companies that have begun to negotiate contracts for Ukraine.
In addition to the military part, American assistance to Ukraine also includes budgetary assistance, primarily provided through the World Bank Trust Fund, and other funds provided through the US International Development Agency.
They want to write that they are “losing their nutrition” if the Americans will share intelligence data with Ukraine. However, the number of dzherel in the military-political stakes was distributed by RBC-Ukraine, so that there were no changes in this intelligence service of Ukraine from the side of the United States. With whom one of the dzherel vzagali doubts that there will be a thread of intelligence. Oskolki, in the words of the spivrozmovnik, “this is a different line of spivrobitnitsya.”
Reuters also writes that Trump has canceled military assistance to Ukraine. Dzherelo said that this message was sent not only to Ukraine, but also to Europe.
“President Trump has made it clear that there are no worries in the world. We need our partners to also commit to this. We look forward to our help in order to overcome what is going on.” I’ve made a decision,” the American Posadovets said anonymously.
As of this announcement, key members of the oversight committees of the US Congress were not informed about the decision to reduce aid, including members of the Senate Committee on the right of the armed forces.
The information agency, again from messages sent to an anonymous source, aware of the situation, reports that the supply of American military equipment has significantly slowed down. Behind the words of Dzherel, there was a rush of vantages who headed straight to Ukraine, arriving at around 03:30 Kyiv time (01:30 GMT).
Voice of America journalist Ostap Yarish wrote that the remaining packages contained missiles up to PPO, ammunition up to HIMARS and artillery. If we pay attention to the transferred package, a month before the end of Biden’s presidential term, we can provide the Ukrainian Defense Forces with PPO, artillery and other armored systems.
The ABC television channel, with a message to Pentagon officials, is currently informing that the reduction in military assistance to Ukraine from the side of the United States has affected the supply of armored vehicles.
The US pushed Yaku Viyskov to help him until the pause
US additional assistance included military and budgetary assistance. The total amount of American aid for Ukraine until the spring of 2024 amounted to approximately 175 billion dollars, including from international contributions and to the Committee from the federal budget. Of these – 65.9 billion dollars in excess of government assistance since the end of 2022.
The rest of the packages were voted down by Washington for the presidency of Joe Biden, who is still trying to provide Ukraine with the necessary support as much as possible. The Guardian is making a list of additional assistance that was announced until 20 June, until the remaining years of the Biden administration.
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After suffering unexpected attacks from the side of the Russian troops, Washington ordered Kiev to develop more advanced anti-aircraft defense capabilities by locking up three batteries of Patriot anti-aircraft missiles. European allies also provided Ukraine with such systems.
Other air defense systems included 12 NASAMS, pre-Hawk ammunition systems, and over 3,000 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
To increase the effectiveness of the Ukrainian air defense system, 21 wind surveillance radars were provided, as well as equipment that integrates incoming launchers and missiles into Ukrainian systems.
Rockets, shells, mortars
Washington sent ATACMS missiles, important for the Ukrainian Defense Forces, over two hundred 155-mm howitzers along with three million artillery shells, 72 105-mm howitzers and a million shells before them, and also hundreds of thousands of mortars.
Over 40 HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems were delivered with adequate ammunition. Washington also gave Ukraine over 10,000 Javelins, anti-tank missiles that became symbols of the Ukrainian bulwark against Russian invasion in the early wars.
Over 120 thousand anti-tank armor, as well as 10 thousand Tow anti-tank missiles, were delivered. The Ukrainian military delivered millions of bombs to the Streltsy armor.
Tanks, armored fighting vehicles
The Pentagon was willing to send its combat aircraft directly to Kiev, and the Biden administration sent 20 military helicopters of the Radyan Mi-17 design. She also supplied a bunch of different models of drones.
After the troublesome delays of the Biden administration, starting from 2023, Washington has installed 31 Abrams. 45 T-72B tanks of Radyansky design were also delivered.
The list also includes 300 Bradley fighting vehicles, 1,300 armored personnel carriers, over 5,000 Humvee military vehicles and 300 armored ambulances.
Washington also supplied patrol boats, coastal defense systems, minis, satellite communications systems, night-time surveillance systems, and over 100,000 sets of body armor.
The reaction of the republicans is ambiguous
The decision to slow down the implementation of the law was praised by the Swede, but there were differences among the Republicans, and legislators spoke out against his government, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Republicans in the US Congress, where the party has a majority in both houses, are divided over continued aid to Ukraine, CNN now confirms.
“I don’t believe that any of us, who are sitting here, believe that Ukraine can win this war, and the president says: “Let’s put our land to rest.” Since Zelensky doesn’t want to negotiate about peace, then it’s not our right to shake up tax payers continue to finance the endless war,” CNN quotes one of the Oklahoma Republicans.
Then-GOP Senator Susan Collins condemned the pause, insisting that the United States has a responsibility to continue to encourage its ally. In their words, Congress “may not be able to do anything to ensure that Ukraine continues to reject aid from the United States.”
“This is a critical hour for Ukraine. Last year I was working on the additional project “Ukraine”, which by giving Ukraine additional help, and I don’t think that our zusillas are to blame. These Ukrainians are shedding blood,” he said in his own words Republican of Maine.
The head of the House Committee of Representatives from abroad, Republican Congressman Brian Mast, told CNN that he was “aware of the option” for the Trump administration to suspend all US military aid to Ukraine.
How Ukraine reacts
CNN journalists sent words from recent officials after deciding to write that “Ukraine, having seen through everything, can maintain its current pace of military operations for many years – perhaps until “It's almost summer – so much so that the US pause is starting to have a serious effect.”
“At that time, when European countries can replace American supplies of artillery, complemented by the powerful growing defense industry of Ukraine, the current threat, as vikorist Kiev, will be obtained from States,” according to CNN materials.
In fact, as Fedir Venislavsky, People’s Deputy and Member of the Defense Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, said in a commentary to RBC-Ukraine, Ukraine has a reserve of value that is about to last without the systemic support of the United States.
“I think that the reserve of value in Ukraine is definitely here for the rest of the day without systemic assistance from the United States, otherwise it will be much more complicated. That’s why everyone is working – the president’s team, the Verkhovna Rada, and our committee – on Therefore, to look at options for compensation for the cost and damage of the war, which the United States may request and has already requested to give us,” he said.
According to him, last year a meeting of the Supreme Committee for the sake of national security, defense and intelligence was closed, which considered a negative scenario that would happen if the United States accepted military assistance.
“Our military-industrial complex, in three years, has gained sufficiently great capacity and has created a structure that minimizes the threats and risks that we should face when looking at this situation. And, of course, the nomenclature has been created, Without it, it will be even more difficult. The USA can be included,” said Venislavsky.
The People's Deputy has spoken, the main idea is that there are alternatives, so that the Ukrainian forces of the Anti-Terrorist Defense have insufficient capabilities to defeat air attacks, as well as high-precision and long-range missile systems, which is factual Only Americans are worried.
The head of the Supreme Committee for Foreign Policy, Oleksandr Merezhko, called the announcement of US aid “shocking decisions.”
“Until the last moment, I was convinced that Trump could not kill anyone, because he wanted to be popular, and such a short term would definitely signal a negative reaction,” Merezhko said in the ABC News commentary and added that with such a rank, “Trump is helping Putin to kill Ukrainians.”
With his help to the Center for the Prevention of Disinformation of the RNBO, Andriy Kovalenko ahead of the current crisis of manipulation and information pressure.
“All the same, it is necessary to check the official information itself, because the media will inflate the bag as much as possible, or cause panic. In any case, diplomacy is carried out. Be that as it may, fortune-telling is part of diplomatic combinations, “You must not forget about this,” adding Vin.
The Office of the President of Ukraine also filed a statement. The head of the OP Mikhailo Podolyak said that many programs were already at the completion stage. In his words, Ukraine is now conducting a thorough audit of what can be generated between partner universities and what can be replaced.
“We’re talking about it in commercial markets. We’re discussing it with European partners. Well, we still respect the possibility of relocations with our American partners,” Podolyak wrote.
In fact, Prime Minister Denis Shmigal, who gave a press conference today, said that “yesterday the border with the United States was in a state of flux,” and that he “has no information, which is now incomplete.”
“When we camped yesterday evening, we took away all the help. When we camped in the morning, I no longer liked the Minister of Defense, because there were some changes. “I told you,” Shmigal said.
In this case, according to RBC-Ukraine, how can Ukraine adapt, since the United States does not provide assistance, declaring that “the military order is using tools in response to the situation on the front line,” aka For obvious reasons, information does not contribute to the controversy.
The US praised the decision without consulting its allies
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk stated that the news confirms the slowdown in US aid supplies to Ukraine through a hub in Poland. Having said that through this situation the order will have to make a decision in a “dead extraordinary” way.
“There is no need to take into account what the American side has said “just in words.” This, of course, puts Europe, Ukraine and Poland in a more difficult situation,” Tusk said.
Recently, the river driver of the Polish MZS Pavlo Vronsky stated that the States went to such lengths without any information or consultation with NATO allies or the Ramstein group, which supports Ukraine. Having added that the Americans did not inform their allies about their decision, the EU Rada is now discussing this.
“Following the data of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the decisions are even more important, and the situation is even more serious,” Vronsky added.
We remember that on the 28th, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington and met with American President Donald Trump at the White House. It seemed that Ukraine and the United States would sign a treaty about the borer copalin.
However, during the meeting between journalists in the Oval Office between Zelensky and Trump and US Vice President J.D. Vance, the Russian-Ukrainian war became a superfight. The parties differed in their thoughts, but Washington and Kiev did not sign.
Natomist Zelensky left his visit to London to meet with European leaders and said that the end of the war is far away. This shocked Trump, who called this “the worst statement that could have been crushed by Zelensky and America will not tolerate this for long.”
Later on Monday, the US President stressed that Zelensky does not wash himself for a long time, as he “doesn’t want to please.”
“This is not such an important service. You can make a lot of money,” Trump told reporters, looming in the face of the fire.
While preparing the material, the following publications were used: Politico, Reuters, CNN, New York Times, Voice of America, ABC News, Bloomberg, as well as exclusive comments for RBC-Ukraine.
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