[Trending News] Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine after an incident with Zelensky in the White House

US President Donald Trump decreed the suspension of all military aid provided by the United States to Ukraine following the verbal confrontation that occurred on Friday with the Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House. The decision was taken Monday during a meeting at the White House that included Trump, US Vice President JD Vance, US Diplomacy Chief Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, says the Washington Post.

The news of the suspension was initially advanced by Bloomberg and Fox News. Bloomberg, a pentagon official indicates that the pause is expected to extend until the US President considers that there is a commitment of good faith to peace to the Ukrainian leadership. To Fox News, another source of the Trump administration reiterates that it is “a break” and not a “permanent cancellation of help”.

“The president has been clear that his focus is peace. We need our partners to have a commitment to this goal as well. Washington Post. According to the newspaper, the process of suspension of aid began to be prepared after Friday's incident. The idea that gives him the basis of freezing the aid to force Ukrainian adherence to a possible peacekeeping agreement to this day is unknown, however, before the altercation between Trump and Zelensky.

The pause covers the transfer of all military equipment on the way to Ukraine, including weaponry that is currently found on American bases in Poland. As refers to site News to Axios, citing the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), each military aid package takes about eight months to reach the ground since the moment of its announcement, so the suspension now announced will be delivering armament whose shipping has been decided during the administration of Democrat Joe Biden.

Advantage for Moscow

Extending, the suspension of US military aid favors Russian forces on the battlefield and strengthens Moscow's negotiation position in any peaceful talks at a time when CNN according to a possible gathering between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has no date and, even seeing, excludes Zelensky.

Since the start of the Ukraine large -scale invasion of Russia in 2022, the United States announced $ 65 billion in military aid to Kiev and Congress has authorized $ 170 billion in financial and humanitarian aid. In total, it is a lower value than that Trump has recurrently referred to in stating, incorrectly, that Washington's support to Ukraine has been higher than that provided by European allies. Part of the funds approved by Congress in the context of financial and humanitarian aid programs to Ukraine was not implemented due to the general freezing of foreign aid decreed in January by the Trump administration.

Throughout Monday, Trump maintained the critical tone against Zelensky, condemning the statements made by the Ukrainian President during the weekend, when he considered peace “is still far, far away.”

“This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelensky, and America will not put up with this for much longer. That's what I said, this type does not want to be peace while having the support of America, and Europe at the meeting with Zelensky said clearly that it could not help it without the US – it was probably not a good statement to do in terms of showing strength before Russia. .

The idea that Zelensky is an obstacle to peace was also verbalized this Monday, by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “What happened at the White House on Friday, obviously demonstrated how difficult it will be to reach an agreement in Ukraine. (…) The Kiev and Zelensky regime do not want peace.

The freezing of military aid is announced days after Pete Hegseth ordered the cybercoming of the US Armed Forces to also suspend any actions of cyber war against Russia while conducting negotiations in view of the end of the conflict in Ukraine.

Break in the White House

The tense relationship between the Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky administration has been silent on Friday, during the Ukrainian President's visit to the White House, where a joint exploration agreement of mineral resources in Ukraine was expected-a widely commercial treaty, which did not include any guarantee of safety to provide Washington to Moscow, but was seen as a tool to try to ensure US support to Breaking during a possible peace negotiation with Russia.

During the meeting, and in the face of JD Vance's reference to Trump's bet at a diplomatic departure for the conflict, Zelensky recalled Putin's repeated breakdown of agreements, triggering an unusual reaction from the “vice” of the United States. “I think it is a lack of respect that comes to the Oval Room to try to debate this in front of the US press,” Vance said, with Trump then joining and accusing Zelensky of “playing with the lives of millions of people” and risking “a third world war.”

After the tense moment, when Zelensky was accused of “disrespecting” Trump and refusing to say “thank you” for US support, although the Ukrainian President thanked before, during and after his visit to Washington, the US help was no longer signed by the joint mineral exploration agreement and the Ukrainian leader anticipated his return.

In the United Kingdom, on the weekend, Zelensky met with leaders from European allied countries, the European Union (EU) and Canada, and received guarantees of their support, although he has also heard words of encouragement to reconstruct his relationship with Trump. Refusing confrontation with Washington, despite a growing board of Atlantic cleavage, European leaders converged around the idea of ​​increasing continental military capacity, which is expected to mark the European Council on Thursday.

Portugal is expected to contribute 300 million euros to a new additional military support package to Ukraine, worth 20 billion euros, which is being designed in Brussels and can be validated by the EU heads and government at the Extraordinary Meeting called for this week.