The US has halted army assist to Ukraine. Weapons and different army gear on its strategy to Ukrainian army bases that has not already arrived in Ukraine, will probably be instructed to make a U-turn again to their origin.
President Trump has mentioned the pause will proceed till President Zelensky proves that he’s devoted to peace and sits down to debate a take care of Russia with the US as brokers. Trump has indicated that the freeze on army {hardware} shouldn’t be everlasting, however a pause. The US, it appears, is making an attempt to drive the hand of Ukraine into conceding land to Putin with the intention to deliver him to the negotiating desk and cease the combating.
US assist freeze to hit Ukraine army laborious
The speedy impression will hit Ukraine’s conflict effort laborious. The US has supplied $65.9 billion in army help since Russia’s 2022 invasion, based on the US State Division, together with very important methods like HIMARS, Patriot defences, and over 100,000 rounds of artillery ammo. With out this, Ukraine’s means to counter Russia’s intensified jap offensive will seemingly erode quick. Moscow’s forces have gained 765 sq. kilometres since January 2025.
Ukraine’s survival odds will little doubt drop on account of the suspension of assist, however to not zero. European assist and home ingenuity would possibly purchase a while. The US dangers dropping leverage over a $20 trillion Ukrainian minerals deal Trump is eyeing.
In the meantime, President Trump has accused European leaders of being ‘weak’ after Starmer, Macron, and different EU heads mentioned they might not ship peacekeeping troops into Ukraine with no safety assure, or a form of ‘backstop,’ from the US.
Trump hard-nosed enterprise negotiation techniques
Zelensky had been quoted as saying that ‘the conflict is much from over,’ to which Trump responded that it was ‘the worst assertion that would have been made’ and, ‘America is not going to put up with it for for much longer.’
Hanging within the steadiness is a deal between Ukraine and the US for Ukrainian uncommon minerals, though the freeze on assist seems extra more likely to be the hard-nosed enterprise negotiation techniques of the American president.
He additionally mentioned on his social media account that European nations have been being hypocritical, with most spending extra on shopping for Russian gasoline and oil than they’d been on sending weapons to Ukraine.