US to send more weapons to Ukraine, Trump says

US president says Ukraine indispensable beryllium capable to support itself and is ‘getting deed precise hard’.

United States President Donald Trump has said his medication volition nonstop much weapons to Ukraine aft an earlier determination to halt immoderate arms shipments drew condemnation from Kyiv and its supporters.

Speaking to reporters up of a meal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successful Washington, DC connected Monday, Trump said the caller shipments would beryllium chiefly comprised of “defensive weapons”.

“We’re going to nonstop immoderate much weapons. We person to. They person to beryllium capable to support themselves,” Trump said.

“They are getting deed precise hard now.”

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed Trump’s comments aboriginal connected Monday, saying that Washington would supply “additional antiaircraft weapons” to “ensure the Ukrainians tin support themselves portion we enactment to unafraid a lasting bid and guarantee the sidesplitting stops”.

Parnell added that Trump would proceed to measure subject shipments overseas successful accordance with “our America First defence priorities”.

Trump’s pledge came aft Russia announced connected Monday that it had captured the Ukrainian colony of Dachne, successful Dnipropetrovsk, pursuing a months-long propulsion to prehend territory successful the cardinal region.

The determination besides follows an announcement by the Pentagon past week that it would halt deliveries of immoderate weapons, including aerial defence missiles and precision-guided artillery, retired of interest that stockpiles were moving excessively low.

After a telephone telephone with Trump connected Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium had agreed with his US counterpart to enactment to fortify Ukraine’s aerial defences.

“We spoke astir opportunities successful aerial defence and agreed that we volition enactment unneurotic to fortify extortion of our skies,” Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X.

Trump connected Friday described the telephone arsenic “very good” and said his medication was “looking at” selling much Patriot missiles to Kyiv.

“They request them for defence. I don’t privation to spot radical killed,” Trump told reporters connected Air Force One.