The United States interrupted the sending of all military aid intended for Ukraine. The suspension will remain in force until President Donald Trump has verified the sincerity of Kiev’s commitment in the peace process. The blockage concerns all the war material not yet arrived in Ukraine, including weapons in transit and those stored in the passage points in Poland. The decision, according to a Pentagon official cited by Bloomberg, was taken on direct order of Trump, who commissioned the secretary of defense Pete Hegseth to implement it. The measure comes in the context of tensions between the US leader and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukraine-Russia, Vance: “Zelensky will accept peace negotiations”
The Vice -President of the United States, JD Vance, said he was confident that the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will accept, sooner or later, to sit at the Table of Negotiations with Russia. The declaration comes after the failed meeting between Zelensky and Donald Trump on Friday. In an interview a Fox NewsVance stressed that Kiev’s leader has so far avoided a real commitment in the peace path promoted by Washington.
“I don’t think Zelensky is still ready – he said – but sooner or later he will have to be. It is necessary.” Vance reiterated that Trump would be willing to reopen the dialogue with the Ukrainian president only when the latter concretely demonstrates the will to find a solution to the conflict with Moscow. “The door remains open – he added – but only if it will be serious in discussing peace”.
Trump warns Zelensky: “Time holds”
The former American president, now again driving the United States, does not exclude an agreement with Kiev but launches a clear warning: Washington’s patience is not infinite. “O Zelensky accepts the conditions imposed by the United States for peace in Ukraine, or will find himself abandoned,” Trump would have declared on Truth Social. Commenting on the words of the Ukrainian leader, who during his visit to the United Kingdom said that “the end of the war is still very, very distant”, Trump has reacted hard: “It is an unacceptable declaration, and America will not tolerate this situation for a long time.”
Before leaving London, Zelensky had reiterated that any peace agreement will have to be “honest, fair and stable” and include “concrete security guarantees”. However, he has excluded any territorial concession in Moscow, defining the areas occupied as “territories temporarily under Russian control”. A position that triggered new tensions with Washington.
Moscow accuses Zelensky: “He doesn’t want peace”
The statements of the Ukrainian President did not go unnoticed even in Moscow. The Kremlin took the opportunity to accuse him of sabotage every possibility of agreement. “If it were for him, the war would continue until he has the support of the United States and Europe,” said Trump on Truth Socialechoing the criticisms launched by the Cremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov: “Zelensky must be forced to accept an agreement. If the Europeans will convince him, so much of earned. “
In the meantime, the climate between Moscow and Washington seems to record distance signals. According to sources reported by Reutersthe White House would have asked the State Departments and the Treasury to prepare a proposal for lightening the sanctions against some Russian oligarchs and other selected entities.
Decisive hours for aid in Kiev
The future of US assistance to Ukraine remains in the balance. According to the New York Timesin the next few hours Trump will discuss with his closest councilors, including the secretary of state Marco Rubio and the head of the Pentagon, the possible stop to military aid. For now, the former president has avoided providing a definitive response: “I haven’t talked about it yet, but many things are happening right now,” he told journalists. Finally, Trump left a glimpse of the agreement for mining resources open, a theme that could address in Speech on the state of the Union scheduled for Tuesday in Capitol Hill. A highly anticipated intervention, also for the previous one of 2020, when the then speaker of the Chamber Nancy Pelosi He snatched the copy of Trump’s speech live, marking one of the most iconic moments of his presidency.
