Defense stocks rally as Trump says Kyiv can win back all of Ukraine
A Swedish Air Force Saab Jas 39 Gripen Jet Fighter emerged during NATO’s Ramsteign Flag at the Ramsteign Flag at the Leeuwarden Air Base on April 8, 2025.
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US President Donald Trump’s major rhetoric shift, US President Donald Trump, followed by global defense stocks on Wednesday.
One post Trump said that with the support of the European Union and the NATO Military Coalition, which was published on a night on the social platform, Trump said that “Ukraine is in its original form and win.”
Since the beginning of the occupation of Russia in 2022, the EU and NATO offered military and human support to Ukraine, which is not members of both organizations.
Trump said that his opinion came to recognize the “military and economic status of Russia and Ukraine” and fully understood “after the conflict described it as a” economic problem caused by Moscow. The White House leader resembles Russia to “paper tiger” – typically strong, but actually expressed an ineffective power.
The US President previously suggested that Ukraine should be open to give up some lands in Washington’s peace talks since the beginning of Trump’s second mission.
In separate comments on Tuesday, Trump said that NATO members should hit the Russian jets in the airspace after a series of attacks reported in the heavens of Poland, Romania and Estonia by Russian planes and drones in recent weeks.
Defense stocks were mostly between PERSigns in Pan-Europe Stoxx 600 Index on Wednesday morning.
Swedish defense giant Saab was last traded by 4.4% higher, at the highest level of 52 weeks, Italian defense firm Leonardo And the German tank parts manufacturer color rose by more than 3%.
Hensoldt, a German defense company, performed the best performance with an increase of 3.7% at 11:00 at London.
Hensoldt Finance Director Christian Ladurner said Trump’s comments did not necessarily change the general situation for the defense industry of the European defense industry, but that the sector’s warnings will continue to test the block of Russian President Vladmir Putin.
Ladurner, CNBC’nin “Squawk Box Europe’a” on Wednesday, “in a statement on Wednesday,” in general, the developments we have seen in the last two days are very encouraging for Europe. ” He said.
“We see that the US is increasingly more, I see the truth, what really and what is happening. This is encouraging to us.”
In Asia, Great South Korean defense stocks, including Hanwha Aerospace, Korean Aerospace and Hyundai Rotem, issued between 2% and 5% on Wednesday.
Values to Russia ‘Trump’s willingness to help’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed with pleasure The truth of Trump said in his social broadcast that the US president was “grateful” for “strong cooperation” on social media.
“We clearly understand the situation and are well informed about all aspects of this war. We value his determination to help end this war.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) attended a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump (R) at the 8th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN Headquarters in New York on 23 September 2025.
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Developing rapprochement with Washington in recent months, Russia has also responded to Trump’s tonal change in the Ukrainian War.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Putin values Putin’s “Trump’s willingness to find solutions in Ukraine”. Peskov objected to Trump’s labeling Russia as the so -called “paper tiger”.
