Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell confirmed yesterday that indeed the Trump Administration has stopped the transfer of some weapons and munitions that had been promised to Ukraine by the Biden Administration. Parnell told reporters at the Pentagon that “some assistance provided to Ukraine—as well as assistance to other nations—is on pause as the Defense Department reviews its own capabilities to ensure when it opts to provide aid to other nations, it never shortchanges itself in the process,” reported DOD News. “This capability review ... is being conducted to ensure U.S. military aid aligns with our defense priorities,” he said. “We see this as a common-sense, pragmatic step towards having a framework to evaluate what munitions are sent and where.” The evaluation, Parnell said, will better help the President and defense secretary make decisions about how and when military aid is provided.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon decision has generated the expected apoplexy from the Kiev regime and its supporters on both sides of the Atlantic. They claim that not supplying Ukraine with the weapons it needs will lengthen the war, when in fact it has been the Western supply of tens of billions of weapons and munitions to Ukraine which has sabotaged every possibility of a political settlement of the conflict.
“Any delay or slowing down in supporting Ukraine’s defense capabilities would only encourage the aggressor to continue war and terror, rather than seek peace,” Mariana Betsa, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, said in a statement on July 2, reported Politico. In a separate statement, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said that “Ukraine has not received any official notifications about the suspension or revision of the delivery schedules of the agreed defense assistance, so we proceed from the actual data and check the details of each element in the delivery.”
