US halts some weapons shipments to Ukraine, White House says
The White House said Russia’s war against Ukraine intensified, as the US has stopped some arms shipments to Kiev.
White House spokesman Anna Kelly said on Tuesday that “America’s interests in the first place” was taken and the US watched the “military support and assistance and assistance” review.
Since Russia launched a full -scale invasion in February 2022, Russia sent tens of billions of dollars of military aid to Ukraine, which directed some of the US stocks under the administration of Trump to express the concerns that US stocks are very low.
The Ukrainian government did not comment on the announcement. US officials did not immediately say which posts were stopped.
According to the Reuters news agency, air defense missiles and precision ammunition are among the affected weapons.
“The Ministry of Defense continues to offer solid options to continue military aid to Ukraine,” US said Elbridge Colby, the Undersecretariat of Policy Defense.
At the same time, Colby, “the department, the US forces are ready for defense priorities, while maintaining the approach of achieving this goal meticulously examines and adapts.”
A US official reported that the BBC reported that the US media partner CBS News reported, that the movement is based on concerns about the low fall of US military stocks.
“The power of the United States armed forces has not been questioned – just ask Iran,” he added to us about the strikes in the nuclear region of three Iran last month.
The decision arrives shortly after US President Donald Trump met with Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian counterpart at the NATO summit in the Netherlands last week.
On this occasion, Trump said US officials will “see if we can make some of them available”. Asked by BBC About Ukraine providing extra patriot anti-fisil systems.
Trump referring to his speech with Zelensky, “Sometimes we had a little challenge, but it could not be more beautiful.” He said.
The two had a heated conflict in the Oval Office in March this year. Later, Trump said he had paused military aid to Ukraine, which was allocated by the previous Biden administration. Intelligence sharing with Ukraine was also suspended.
However, both pauses were then removed.
In late April, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement that would enable the US to access the mineral reserves of Ukraine in exchange for military assistance.
The US military aid is suspended, Russia is accelerating its war against Ukraine.
At the weekend, Russia has launched one of the largest air strikes in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, and has used more than 500 different weapons species, including drones, ballistic and navigation missiles.
On Tuesday, three people were killed in the Ukrainian attack on a Russian factory in Izhevsk more than 1,000km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Moscow is currently controlling about 20% of the Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean Peninsula added in 2014.
