The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.
At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.
After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.
But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.
Israel has been sucking up military aid for over 70 years. Yet only right now, after Trump bombed Iran, it became a problem to supply Ukraine.
Trump claiming there aren’t weapons for Ukraine is because of Iran missile strikes. It has nothing to do with Gaza. Iran missile strikes happened because of Iran’s uranium refinement program that started because of Trump (This is Iran’s statement.).
That’s an extraordinarily gross misreading of my statement. The US was able to supply Ukraine and Israel until Israel bombed Iran because of their nuclear weapons program.