The US has stopped Kiev’s shipment of some weapons, the White House has said, as the war of Russia against Ukraine has intensified.
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said on Tuesday, “The US’s interests were first” after reviewing American interests “after the US interests” after military support and assistance “.
The US has sent tens of billions of dollars to military aid in Ukraine as Russia started its full -scale invasion in February 2022, causing some people in the Trump administration that American stockpiles are very rare.
The Ukrainian government has not commented on the announcement. US officials did not immediately say which shipments are stopping.
According to the Reuters News Agency, air defense missiles and accurate monks are considered among the affected weapons.
The Defense Department “continues to provide a strong option to the President to continue military assistance to Ukraine,” Elbridge Kolby said, “Defense Understanding for Policy.”
At the same time, Kolbi said, “The department is strictly investigating its approach to achieve this objective and getting its view, while protecting the promptness for the administration of the administration of American forces.”
An American official said the move was based on concerns about American military stockpiles, which by BBC’s American media partner CBS News.
Kelly said, “The strength of the United States armed forces remains undeniably – just ask Iran,” Kelly said last month referring to US attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites.
US President Donald Trump met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodimier Zelanski at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands last week.
On that occasion, Trump said that American officials “are going to see if we can provide some of them” Jab ” Asked by BBC About providing additional patriot anti-mesile system to Ukraine.
Referring to his conversation with Zelansky, Trump said: “We had sometimes a little thick, but he could not be good.”
Both of them clashed in the Oval office in March this year. Later, Trump said he was preventing military aid in Ukraine that was determined by the previous biden administration. Intelligence sharing with Ukraine was also suspended.
But both stagnation was later removed.
In late April, the US and Ukraine signed a deal, which would provide US access to Ukraine’s mineral reserves in exchange for US assistance.
Separately, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for more than two and a half years.
He spoke over the phone for more than two hours, the Macron’s office said, the French President urged a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Putin convicted the West for the struggle and hit him back. A statement by Kremlin said that Putin reminded Macron that Western countries “ignored Russia’s security interests for many years” and “made an anti -Russian Bridge in Ukraine”.
US military aid suspension comes as Russia started its war against Ukraine.
Over the weekend, Russia launched one of its biggest air strikes on Ukraine since the onset of the war, using more than 500 different types of weapons, including drones, ballistic, and cruise missiles.
On Tuesday, three people were killed in a Ukrainian attack on a Russian factory in Izhevsk, more than 1,000 km from the border with Ukraine.
Moscow currently controls about 20% of the Ukrainian region including the Crimea Peninsula, including the Crimea Peninsula in 2014.
