US President Donald Trump ordered a pause to all military aid to Ukraine on Monday. This comes just days after an Oval Office blowup with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left the support of his country’s most important ally in doubt.
The US is pausing all current military aid to Ukraine until Trump determines the country’s leaders demonstrate a good-faith commitment to peace, Bloomberg reported, quoting a senior Defense Department official who asked not to be identified discussing private deliberations.
According to the report, all US military equipment not currently in Ukraine would be paused, including weapons in transit on aircraft and ships or waiting in transit areas in Poland.
The reported order comes days after Trump and Zelensky had a very public spat during their meeting at the Oval Office in Washington on Friday. The Ukrainian leader was in the US to sign a minerals deal, but it fell through after he asked for a security guarantee from the Trump administration against a future Russian invasion.
