The Trump Management in Ukraine pauses American military aid in Ukraine, the White House confirmed Monday. These are the latest drop in days after a a controversial meeting Between President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House broke out in the open slow in front of a TV camera.
“The president was clear that he was focused on peace,” said a white house official for CBS. “We also need our partners to dedicate ourselves to that goal. We pause and review our help to ensure that it contributes to the solution.”
The US was a key supplier of weapons for Ukraine, because it continues arouse Russian troops Three years after three years ago, President Vladimir Putin. But Mr. Trump’s return brought Labeled shift In American policy towards the conflict, with the President Blame Ukraine Russia began for the war.
Friday is a meeting, which was supposed to precede the signing of economic and mineral agreements between the United States and Ukraine, flipped in conflict.
Mr. Trump told Zelensky to reach a fire break with Russia, and Vance has accused Ukraine and Bidan Administration. The meeting was abruptly completed without signing the Rare Countries. The future of military aid for Ukraine It was in doubt.
Since Mr. Trump took office in January, in the amount of $ 3.85 billion Weapon coating cover This can withdraw from the existing American stocks and sent to Ukraine, American officials have previously told the news of the CBS. But Trump administration did not pack any help for one shipment from 21. January, the diplomatic source said on Monday CBS news. However, there were shipment of weapons sent in Ukraine from 20. January that promised Biden Administration in earlier allocations, according to defense data.
3.85 billion dollars consumes authority, not congressionally appropriating funds, which means that the White House is to determine whether to determine the help. It is also not considered “real money”, which means that it cannot be carried out in another place.
Separately, the State Department also has about $ 1.5 billion in foreign military financing for Ukraine, which is under political review by the MARCO RUBIO State Secretary. So far, Trump State Department gave only Egypt and Israel Gifts to help the FMF.
After the meeting on Friday, Zelenskyy traveled to London for a Summit with the European and Canadian leaders, where the importance of the Western Security Guarantee emphasized as part of any agreement that the war will end. He said that in Ukraine was that peace with Russia was “still very, very far,” but he thought he would be considered to relate to Ukraine-US relations.
Mr. Trump later published a connection with the associated story story that covered the comments Zelensky and he wrote, “This is the worst statement that Zelensky would, and America will not be much longer!”
“That’s what I said, this guy doesn’t want to be peace until he has American support and, Europe, in the meeting that they could not do a business without the US – a great statement in terms of strength against Russia.” What do they think? “Mr. Trump added.
The spoken fixed attitudes of Mr. Trump in Ukraine ranked some GOP MPs.
Republican Senad Susan Collins, Monday, “We should not take care of our efforts. It was a shedding of blood. It has launched a negligible attack on a free, democratic and sovereign land. And I don’t support my support in Ukraine.”
Before the announcement of the Trump Administration on Monday, Senalca Mike, the Republican from the South Dakota serving the Committee for Armed Services, said in Ukraine, “I will simply say that we must return to the track.”
“It is critical to collect the Mineral agreement and working on the benefit of the Security Agreement with Ukraine,” Runes told reporters at the Capitol. “They were attacked. Russia is wrong, but we want to find the way to peace, and someone needs to be an intermediary, but Russia is an aggressor, and that is the aggressor, and that must be recognized.”
Last month, Mr. Trump said that he had a “long-lasting and highly productive phone call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin and also headed for other members of his national “immediately” negotiations that focused on the end of the Russian war with Ukraine.
But Rubio said in February that “long way to go” was before they could start peace conversations.
Delegations led by Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov He met in Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaShortly after these comments, without Ukrainian officials. The State Department spokesman after the meeting and Lavrov agreed to appoint “high-level teams to start working on the road to finish the conflict in Ukraine, as soon as possible in a way that endured, sustainable and acceptable to all parties.”
Eleanor Watson, Jennifer Jacobs, Margaret Brennan and
contributed to this report.
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