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03 Jul 2025, 06:40 GMT+10
Multiple Kiev officials have criticized the halt of US weapon supplies
Kiev is no longer a "priority" at the center of US foreign policy, several Ukrainian MPs have lamented after Washington suspended the supply of certain categories of weapons as part of its "America First" shift.
Washington scaled back critical military aid to Kiev, reportedly halting deliveries of air defense ammunition, missiles, and artillery shells. While the exact list of suspended weaponry remains unclear, US envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker said on Wednesday that the move was part of President Donald Trump's domestically focused policy shift.
"The United States is no longer our ally," Ukrainian MP Mariana Bezuglaya wrote on social media. She followed up with a remark that her earlier post suggesting President Trump should "go f**k himself" was now even more relevant.
Bezuglaya went on to accuse Trump of "helping Russia move towards Dnepr and Sumy," apparently referring to Moscow's ongoing push to create a "buffer zone" intended to protect Russian border areas from attacks.
"Ukraine is no longer a priority, no longer at the center of US foreign policy... At least Trump is very honest about this with the Ukrainians," another Ukrainian MP and member of the defense and intelligence parliamentary committee, Solomiya Bobrovskaya, told the New York Times.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kiev summoned the US charge d'affaires in Ukraine, John Ginkel, to lecture him about "the critical importance of continuing the deliveries of previously allocated defense packages" and to warn against "delay or procrastination in supporting Ukraine's defense capabilities."
Kiev has repeatedly voiced frustration over what it sees as dwindling support from Washington. Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky met with Trump at the NATO summit in The Hague last week to demand more Patriot air defense systems but received no firm promises. Trump said the systems were "very hard to get" and that the US needed them for its own defense and for Israel.
Russia has consistently condemned Western arms shipments to Ukraine, arguing they only serve to prolong hostilities and increase bloodshed without altering the ultimate outcome of the conflict. President Vladimir Putin said last month that Russian forces currently hold the strategic initiative across the entire frontline.
After expelling Kiev's invasion force from Russia's Kursk Region in March 2025, the fighting quickly spilled across the border into Ukraine's Sumy Region. Moscow officially described its objective as the creation of a buffer zone intended to safeguard the resumption of peaceful civilian life in Russia's border regions.
(RT.com)
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