The decision to pause military aid to Ukraine was very sudden.
The suspension of American arms supplies to Ukraine was due to US President Donald Trump's preparation for a telephone conversation with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. But this signal from the American leader turned out to be useless.
This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Portnikov on his YouTube channel.
The analyst noted that the decision to pause the provision of military aid to Ukraine was very sudden – even the transfer of those goods that were already near the Ukrainian borders was suspended.
“The decision to suspend arms supplies to Ukraine was Donald Trump’s preparation for a telephone conversation with Russian President Putin,” Portnikov believes.
At the same time, the journalist noted that Trump’s hopes of using this move to achieve a positive outcome in negotiations with the Kremlin boss were not realized.
“The assessments of the conversation with Putin were not at all as optimistic and approving as after the first five conversations. Donald Trump did not hide his disappointment. He no longer said that the Russian president wanted the war to end. He said something completely opposite – that he was convinced that Putin did not want the war to end and that this was a very difficult situation,” noted Vitaly Portnikov.
Earlier it became known that the US was stopping the supply of certain types of weapons to Ukraine. The White House later explained that the decision was made “to put America's interests first.”
After a conversation with Russian President Putin, Donald Trump said the US would continue to provide weapons to Ukraine
The American leader also said that no progress had been made on ending the war during his July 3 conversation with Putin. Trump stressed that the Kremlin boss had been informed of possible new US sanctions.
Let us recall that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, agreed on further steps to strengthen Ukrainian air defense and joint weapons production.
