{"id":249207,"date":"2025-03-01T01:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/flow-of-u-s-weapons-to-ukraine-has-nearly-stopped-and-may-end-completely\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T01:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:21:14","slug":"flow-of-u-s-weapons-to-ukraine-has-nearly-stopped-and-may-end-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/flow-of-u-s-weapons-to-ukraine-has-nearly-stopped-and-may-end-completely\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow of U.S. Weapons to Ukraine Has Nearly Stopped and May End Completely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/27\/multimedia\/DC-UKRAINE-ARMS-2-phfw\/DC-UKRAINE-ARMS-2-phfw-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Flow of U.S. Weapons to Ukraine Has Nearly Stopped and May End Completely\" title=\"Flow of U.S. Weapons to Ukraine Has Nearly Stopped and May End Completely\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine entered the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday knowing that the flow of weapons and military hardware from the United States to his country had essentially stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the time he left, after a televised argument between the two leaders, the situation appeared even more dire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the two men met, it had been 50 days since the Pentagon had announced a new package of weapons to Ukraine and the new administration had said little about providing any more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A Trump administration official said later on Friday that all U.S. aid to Ukraine \u2014 including the final shipments of ammunition and equipment authorized and paid for during the Biden administration \u2014 could be canceled imminently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of that country in February 2022, such shipments of military hardware from the United States were announced roughly every two weeks during the Biden administration, and sometimes just five or six days apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the Pentagon, about $3.85 billion remains of what Congress authorized for additional withdrawals from the Defense Department\u2019s stockpile. A former senior defense official from the Biden administration said the last of the arms Ukraine had purchased from U.S. defense companies would be shipped within the next six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After that, it will be up to a host of European and other countries to keep Ukraine\u2019s guns firing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has insisted on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/europe\/trump-us-ukraine-mineral-deal.html\" title=\"\">\u201cpayback\u201d<\/a> for military aid. On Friday, the two leaders had been expected to sign <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/world\/europe\/ukraine-minerals-deal.html\" title=\"\">an agreement that would give the United States access to Ukraine\u2019s mineral wealth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A draft of the deal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/26\/world\/europe\/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-security.html\" title=\"\">vaguely mentioned security guarantees<\/a> for Ukraine. But Mr. Zelensky left the White House without an agreement, while his country faces relentless attacks from Russian <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/world\/asia\/north-korea-troops-russia.html\" title=\"\">and North Korean troops<\/a> along a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/26\/insider\/ukraine-reporting.html\" title=\"\">600-mile front line<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine has depended on a lifeline of arms from the United States throughout the war, starting the day after Russian troops crossed the border, when the Biden administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2947554\/department-of-defense-statement-on-additional-military-assistance-for-ukraine\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced that it would send Kyiv $350 million<\/a> worth of arms from the Defense Department\u2019s stockpiles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Friday\u2019s spectacle in the Oval Office, the Trump administration official said the president might decide to end even the indirect support being provided by the U.S., which includes other types of military financing, intelligence sharing, training for Ukrainian troops and pilots, and hosting a call center that manages international aid <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/04\/world\/europe\/ukraine-biden-pentagon-military-assistance.html\" title=\"\">at a U.S. military base in Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such actions would be a shocking abandonment of an embattled partner nation, marking the death knell of support that had survived a political challenge by House Republicans more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In late October 2023, Speaker Mike Johnson <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/27\/us\/ukraine-israel-aid-johnson.html\" title=\"\">began signaling<\/a> that he would hold up additional funding for Ukraine in the House after Mr. Trump \u2014 then out of office \u2014 broadcast his hostility toward further aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the time Mr. Johnson lifted his hold and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/house-foreign-aid-bill.html\" title=\"\">allowed an aid package to pass on April 20<\/a>, 2024, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/us-aid-ukraine-war.html\" title=\"\">Russian troops had advanced<\/a> as Ukraine\u2019s ammunition supplies dwindled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since his election, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/europe\/ukraine-zelensky-trump-russia-war.html\" title=\"\">has vastly overstated<\/a> the amount of aid the United States has given Ukraine, according to the Kiel Institute, a German research organization. He has also falsely claimed that European contributions to Ukraine were loans that Kyiv would repay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">European nations have contributed $138 billion to Ukraine\u2019s war effort compared with $119 billion in military and humanitarian assistance from the U.S., according to Kiel Institute data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Once the last of the U.S.-funded purchases of arms end, the main source of military assistance for Kyiv will be the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/04\/26\/world\/ukraine-russia-war-news#allies-will-keep-moving-heaven-and-earth-to-supply-ukraine-the-us-defense-chief-says\" title=\"\">a collection of roughly 50 nations founded in April 2022 by former Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III<\/a>. It met 25 times during the Biden administration to coordinate the provision of weapons and the development of new military capabilities for the embattled nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the contact group\u2019s meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany in January, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/us\/politics\/trump-zelensky-ukraine-war.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Zelensky<\/a> said it would be \u201ccrazy to drop the ball now\u201d on assistance, after Ukraine had held off Russian forces for so long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Austin, when asked whether he thought the new Trump administration would stick with the coalition, declined to speculate, saying that was a decision \u201cfor the next administration to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Feb. 6, the Pentagon said it was passing leadership of the group to Britain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Pentagon referred questions about continuing support to Ukraine to the British ministry of defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA just and lasting peace is only possible if we continue to show strength and provide Ukraine with the support it needs to defend itself against continued Russian aggression,\u201d a spokesman for the ministry of defense said in response to questions about how Britain would lead the contact group. \u201cThere will be no letup in our support, which we will continue for as long as it is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-ukraine-weapons.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine entered the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday knowing that the flow of weapons and military hardware from the United States to his country had essentially stopped. 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