Trump to speak with Putin after U.S. pauses some weapons shipments to Ukraine

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U.S. President Donald Trump wears a "Gulf of America" chapeau arsenic helium boards Air Force One to depart for Florida, astatine Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., July 1, 2025.

Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters

President Donald Trump said helium volition talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday astatine 10 a.m. ET.

The telephone comes 2 days aft the U.S. said it would halt immoderate rocket and ammunitions shipments to Ukraine, which continues to combat disconnected invading Russian forces.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the intermission weeks aft ordering a reappraisal of America's munitions stockpile, sources told NBC News.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told NBC that the "decision was made to enactment America's interests first" pursuing the Pentagon's reappraisal of U.S. subject enactment for different countries.

"The spot of the United States Armed Forces remains unquestioned — conscionable inquire Iran," Kelly said.

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