In Kiev, partly, a sigh of relief is breathed. After the shock announcement of the past few days on a stop to American military supplies, Donald Trump promised that weapons will return to Ukraine because “he must defend himself”. Vladimir Putin “says a lot of bullshit, he is killing too many people”is the accusation without half measures launched against the Russian leader, together with a new threat of other penalties in Moscow. And if the reverse of the White House on weapons was welcomed with disappointment by the Kremlin, at the same time in the adventure of Volodymyr Zelensky still reigns uncertainty about the actual contribution that will come from Washington: the stocks of the patriots available to the Pentagon would in fact be reduced to the bone. Trump, in the last phone call with Zelensky, had already reassured the interlocutor on military aid, explaining that he had not decided the suspension of supplies. The confirmation that the US will not abandon Kiev to his destiny came from Tycoon himself by responding to journalists, during Benyamin Netanyahu’s visit. “We will send other weapons. We have to do it. They must be able to defend ourselves. Now they are affected very hard,” were the words of the whips of the White House, aimed above all at Putin: “I am not happy at all. I am frankly disappointed, who has not stopped”.
Then the tones climbed further, with the not very diplomatic use of the term “bullshit” compared to Putin’s speeches pronounced during all the calls between the two leaders. That is to say, the Kremlin does not seriously want to negotiate peace, as evidenced by the incessant bombings on all Ukraine and intensity in the earth offensive. The stop to the weapons in Kiev, who were part of the package approved by Joe Biden, had been decided by the head of the Pentagon Pete Hegseth as part of a revision of the stocks after the raids on Iranian nuclear sites. And from what has emerged, only 25 % of Patriots would remain available to the USA for all their military plans. At this point, therefore, it is not clear how many of these precious anti-missile systems will arrive in Ukraine. According to Axios, who cites anonymous sources, Trump would promised to immediately deliver 10 interceptors to Zelensky and would have started talking about it also with Germany, who is evaluating the purchase of other patriots from Washington. The scheduled deliveries originally for Ukrainians, however, were 30 units. In this uncertainty, Kiev asked the ally, stating that it is “of fundamental importance” to maintain “stability, continuity and predictability” in the supply of weapons. Subsequently Zelensky made it known that that he has commissioned his Minister of Defense and the Chief of General General Staff “to intensify all contacts with the American part”. Because “the declarations and political decisions must now be implemented as possible to protect our people and our people Positions “and this – he remarked,” mainly concerns the air defense “. However, the spokesman for the Kremlin did not point his finger against the American president, underlining his “efforts to start a direct negotiation between Russia and Ukrainian”. The Moscow version is that Kiev’s continuous rearmament is to be attributed to a “line chosen by the Europeans”.