President Donald Trump was set Monday to announce a brand new package deal of navy support for embattled Ukraine as his obvious feud with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin deepens.
As a Trump envoy met with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president was anticipated to ship each defensive and offensive weaponry to Kyiv in what seems to be a major shift in his strategy to the three year-plus Russian invasion.
Trump lashed out at Putin late Sunday in an indication that he has lastly misplaced endurance with the Kremlin’s double discuss after six months of inaction.
“I am very disappointed with President Putin, I thought he was somebody that meant what he said,” Trump mentioned late Sunday. “He’ll talk so beautifully and then he’ll bomb people at night. We don’t like that.”
Trump final week teased a “major statement” on Russia anticipated afterward Monday. Administration officers say he plans to ship new Patriot missile protection programs and different weapons, principally funneled by European and NATO allies.
NATO Secretary-Basic Mark Rutte was due in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for talks with Trump, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in addition to members of Congress.
Trump made stopping the conflict shortly one in all his diplomatic priorities, even repeatedly claiming he might finish the preventing in a single day. However Putin has stubbornly snubbed his calls for for a ceasefire that might result in peace talks.
Smoke billows above the town’s buildings following mass Russian drone and missile strikes within the western Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv on July 12, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photograph by YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP) (Photograph by YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
Kremlin watchers say Trump performed into Putin’s arms by caving to a number of Russian calls for, like conceding that Ukraine would want to surrender giant swaths of territory seized by Russia, with out getting any concessions in return.
Particular envoy to Ukraine retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday, as anticipation grew over a attainable shift.
Zelenskyy mentioned the talks went properly, in an indication he has turned the web page on an unsightly spat with Trump on the White Home final winter that led the president to briefly lower off support.
“We hope for the leadership of the United States, because it is clear that Moscow will not stop unless its … ambitions are stopped by force,” Zelenskyy mentioned on the Telegram social media website.
Russia has launched a significant spring and summer time offensive, looking for to push again Ukrainian troops alongside the entrance strains within the jap Donbas area.
Putin has additionally irked Trump by ramping up drone and missile assaults on Ukrainian civilian targets, seemingly ignoring his name for an finish to the preventing.
