President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly paused financing for new weapons sales to Ukraine and is considering a freeze on arms shipments from American weapons stockpiles, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Trump administration effectively froze the arms financing for Ukraine when it implemented its wider pause on foreign aid spending, but its latest step toward possibly cutting off arms shipments to Ukrainian forces follows Trump’s Friday spat in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which ended with the foreign leader being asked to leave the White House ahead of schedule, according to the WSJ, which cited anonymous U.S. officials.
The question of whether or not to restrict weapons shipments to Ukraine is reportedly the subject of a Monday meeting at the White House, according to the WSJ.
The U.S.-Ukraine relationship has been complicated by Friday’s fireworks at the Oval Office. Trump expected Zelenskyy to sign a key critical minerals development deal with the U.S. as a first step toward ending the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine, but the dust-up between the world leaders soured the afternoon and led to the cancellation of a luncheon and press conference that were meant to mark the occasion.
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