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Russia Today
12-07-2025
- Business
- Russia Today
Zelensky confirms resumption of US military aid
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed that deliveries of weapons from the US have resumed following a pause earlier this month. Military aid from abroad is becoming increasingly crucial as Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground and suffer heavy casualties while trying to hold positions along various sections of the front line. 'We have received political signals at the highest level, good signals, including from the United States and from our European friends. According to all reports, aid shipments have been restored,' Zelensky said in his daily video message on Friday. He added that Ukraine will maintain military cooperation with the US and expects new deliveries from its European partners. His remarks come after nearly two weeks of uncertainty, during which the Pentagon abruptly suspended shipments, citing concerns over depleting stockpiles. US President Donald Trump has since pledged to restart the flow of arms, following reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the pause without first consulting the president or the State Department. Reuters and Politico reported earlier this week that Trump plans to use the Presidential Drawdown Authority to authorize a new aid package potentially worth $300 million, which may include Patriot air defense missiles. The president teased a major statement on Russia scheduled for Monday and told NBC that he had finalized a deal to sell weapons to NATO that would later be transferred to Ukraine. Trump has recently expressed frustration over the lack of progress in Russian-Ukrainian peace talks and said he is open to approving a new sanctions bill currently under discussion in the Senate. Moscow has insisted that no amount of foreign aid will prevent it from achieving victory. The Kremlin has also listed a halt to weapons deliveries as one of its conditions for a ceasefire, arguing that military support from NATO members makes them direct participants in the conflict.
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Kremlin says the Ukraine peace process has not stalled
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia did not think peace talks on Ukraine have stalled despite Donald Trump's remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Washington's resumption of some weapons to Ukraine. Trump said on Tuesday that he was not happy with Putin and accused the Kremlin chief of throwing "a lot of bullshit". The United States is delivering artillery shells and mobile rocket artillery missiles to Ukraine, two U.S. officials told Reuters. Asked by Reuters if the peace process on Ukraine was stalled due to Trump's remarks and the resumption of U.S. weapons deliveries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "No, I don't think so. You cannot say that." Russia, Peskov said, was waiting for a signal from Kyiv on whether or not it would join a third round of talks, which first kicked off in May in Istanbul. "We have repeatedly said that it would be preferable for us to achieve our goals through peaceful political and diplomatic means, but as long as this does not happen, a special military operation continues, and the reality on the ground is changing every day," Peskov said. Putin ordered tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops. The United States says over 1.2 million people have been killed and injured in the war since 2022. Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly called for an end to the "bloodbath" of Ukraine, which his administration has cast as a proxy war between the United States and Russia. Putin, whose forces control a fifth of Ukraine and are advancing, has stood firm on his conditions for ending the war, despite public and private pressure from Trump and repeated warnings from European powers. In June 2024, Putin said Ukraine must officially drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from the entire territory of the four Ukrainian regions Russia claims.
