Ukraine-Russia war live: Trump pauses military aid to Kyiv after clash with Zelensky

Donald Trump suddenly stopped over all US military aid that was hit by Ukraine after his clash with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky last week.

“President Trump was clear that he was focused on peace. We also need our partners to be committed to it. We stop ourselves and review our help to ensure that it contributes to a solution,” an official of the White House said Monday on the condition of anonymity.

The White House has no immediate comments on the scope and the amount of help affected or how long the break would last. The Pentagon could not provide further details.

Shortly before he cut the military aid, Mr. However, Trump said on his truth group against Ukraine’s wartime president, saying that Mr. Zelensky should be more valuable for US support.

Mr. Zelensky also said the end of the war is ‘very, very far away’.

“That’s the worst statement that Zelensky could have made, and America won’t manage it much longer!” Mr. Trump wrote about Truth Social.

When Donald Trump won the election last year, Sage Heads nodded and said, “Well, he is right for Europe to shoulder more of the burden of his own defense.” Now we know what it means – and the burden can be harder to bear than we thought.

Mr. Trump is working on an anger, and the world must say that. He sells the values ​​of the American Republic. It was established on the right of people to determine their own future, and the US tried to stand in international matters according to the principle. This has not always done it well, but the US president has never explicitly despised the principle and told a brave people who are fighting for the survival of it being better if it gives up. “Leader of the Free World” no longer.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanian said his country was ready to help Ukraine and be open to considering proposals to send troops to the war-stringed nation for peace attempts.

“There is currently a discussion on possible peace conservation and from the perspective of my government, we are open to considering any proposals going forward,” Albanian said in a deviation from his earlier stance to send against troops to Ukraine.

Mr. Albanian has pointed out the country’s historical peace efforts, which have played a role in the stabilization of several other overseas countries in recent decades.

“As a start, Australia has historically played an important role in areas, including in Africa, in Cyprus, in a variety of peace areas,” he said.

Russia-American negotiations on Ukraine are unlikely to begin until the diplomatic missions of the two countries resume full work, Vladimir Putin press secretary Dmitri Peskov told RIA news agency Ria news agency.

“Unlikely,” Mr. Peskov told Ria in response to a question whether the negotiations could begin before the work of the embassies resumed.

It is estimated that 620,000 Russian soldiers are currently working on the front lines in Ukraine and the Russia’s Kourskoblast, according to a senior official of the Ukrainian military intelligence.

The figure represents an increase of 40,000 troops compared to the equivalent figure at the end of 2024, the Ukrainian Chief Military Intelligence (GUR) directorate, Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, said.

Of the total figure of 620,000, approximately 200,000 are actively fighting on the front lines, he said.

There are about 35,000 additional Rosgvardia troops that protect the rear areas of the battlefield and can switch to becoming a second line of defense if needed, he said in an interview with RBK-Kukraine.

When one of Peter Mandelson’s predecessors as the British ambassador to the United States asked what his mission entailed, he was told that it was simple to ‘get up and stay there the asset of the White House’.

The diplomat who commissioned this was Sir Christopher Meyer in 1997. The man who devised such concise advice was Jonathan Powell, then staff chief of Tony Blair and now reborn as a Consiglieri and national security adviser of Keir Starmer.

One wonders if Jonathan offered similar advice to Lord Mandelson about his Washington post. If so, then Mandelson took it a little too far.

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JD Vance said Trump administration officials are already in talks with Russian to end the war in Ukraine.

The US Vice President warned that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky should be negotiated with Moscow and Donald Trump’s conditions for a mineral rights.

On a question whether Mr. Trump Mr. Zelensky would welcome to sign the agreement left on the table last week, the Mr. Vance to Fox News host, Sean Hannity, said that the Ukrainian leader would be allowed if he “had a serious proposal for how he would participate in the process”.

‘There are details that really matter that we are already working with the Russians. We have talked to some of our allies, he has to seriously participate in the details, ”he said.

The UK “Don’t Talk” to give Donald Trump another state visit in light of the ‘unacceptable’ scenes in the Oval Office, John Swinney said.

The Prime Minister of Scotland also said that there should be an ‘honest debate’ about tax in light of the increase in defense spending.

He called on the offer of a state visit to the UK to be revoked unless the US president gives “full scale” to Ukraine.

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Events in the Oval Office made a European power an inevitability. The coalition of the willing is the first step in renewed European consensus. Although America’s technological lead cannot be replaced overnight, the boost of Ukrainian supplies is a first step to prevent further progress by a Russia.

The unpredictability of Trump and future Maga successors means it is time to start planning for more integrated European military collaboration that increases our shared economies. The UK’s SDSR (Strategic Defense and Security Review) must address this year.

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