President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States is sending Patriot Air Defense missiles to Ukraine to help him defend Russia’s air attacks from the intensifiers.
Trump did not give several patriots that he plans to send to kyiv, but said that the European Union “would pay us 100% for that, and we want it.”
Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, the retired Lieutenant Keith Kellogg, arrived in kyiv on Monday, said a senior Ukrainian official, as the anticipation of possible changes in possible changes in the Trump administration policies in the war of more than three years.
Last week, Trump mocked that he would make an “important statement” in Russia on Monday. Trump quickly made war one of his diplomatic priorities, and has expressed more and more frustration for the unpleasant position of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Putin “speaks well and then pumps everyone,” Trump said Sunday night after saying that the United States would send missiles to Ukraine and the European Union would pay the cost of weapons.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about Trump’s plan to send missiles to Ukraine through Europe: “The fact is that the supplies of weapons, ammunition and military teams of the United States to Ukraine have continued and continued.”
There are “very positive signs” from Washington in the sale of Patriot Air Defense systems for Ukraine, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Defense to Reuters said Monday.
“Discussions are now being held on the modalities of the implementation, that is, how many systems there will be, which will take them and how they will be financed,” said the spokesman, referring to a visit by the Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius to Washington.
A Trump’s upper ally, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, said on Sunday that the conflict is approaching a turning point, since Trump shows a growing interest in helping Ukraine fight against the large -scale invasion of Russia. It is a cause that Trump had previously ruled out as a loss of money from US taxpayers.
In addition, NATO general secretary Mark Rutte owed in Washington on Monday and Tuesday. He planned to hold conversations with Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the members of the Congress.
The conversations during Kellogg’s visit to kyiv will cover “Defense, strengthen security, weapons, sanctions, the protection of our people and improve cooperation between Ukraine and the United States,” said the head of the presidential office of Ukraine, Andrii Yermak.
“Russia does not want fire. Peace through force is the beginning of President Donald Trump, and we support this approach,” said Yermak.
