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Stops Flow of Arms to

financing has been stopped, & officials are meeting to consider suspending other types of assistance

The admin has stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine & is considering freezing weapons shipments from US stockpiles, moves that threaten Kyiv’s ability to fight at a critical time in its battle against ….

The financing was halted in recent weeks amid the admin’s freeze on .


archive.is/2025.03.03-212159/h

But the move to potentially shut down the main pipeline for arms transfers to comes after a contentious meeting between & Ukrainian President Volodymyr …. The tense exchange Friday raised fears across that the US could be moving away from the wider Western .

in Jan ordered a stop to , incl’g , except to & , w/o a waiver. On Fri, the admin said it was sending Israel nearly $3B in new , incl’g >35k new 2k pound , invoking an emergency rule under arms control laws.

Secy of in recent wks signed a waiver to exempt from the ban imposed on foreign assistance, but snr State ofcl hasn’t sent a required letter to the to allow the aid to flow….

orders pause on ALL future to

Following a high-level meeting at the White House, Trump announced a pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in an extraordinary move aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr to the negotiating table with as Ukraine fends off a military invasion from the Kremlin, said 2 U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

has long been skeptical of to [he blames Zelensky instead of himself for his first ], but his top aides began preparing serious policy options for ending military assistance following last week’s full-on berating of by Trump & .

Officials say the decision could be reversed if *Zelensky* demonstrates *a good-faith effort* to participate in peace talks.

Utter nonsense. Zelensky obviously wants peace & he acted w/incredible restraint on Friday.

Nonilex

The decision was made at a WH meeting on Monday that included Secy of , VP , Secy of , Dir of National & envoy .

The move follows an order last week by Hegseth for US Command to halt offensive cyber & operations against as long as negotiations to end the war are ongoing.

Infamously, this isn’t the first time has cut off to & . In July 2019, he had a phone call w/Zelensky in which he said Zelensky should deliver info he could use against Joe in return for unfreezing military aid. Trump had halted supplies to Ukraine, which had been fighting & Russia-backed insurgents since 2014, he only resumed the aid months later when word of Trump’s leaked. It resulted in Trump’s first .

The American suspension of arms transfers to also puts the in direct opposition to its major . Most of the largest European nations — led by , & — have pledged to step up to Ukraine in recent days, backing following & ’s temper tantrum in the Oval Office on Friday. But they simply do not have the stockpiles to make up the difference.

@Nonilex I don't have enough verbar skills to tell what kind of feelings Trump evokes in me.

@Nonilex
If the EU states want to fund it, it will be difficult for the US Gov to prevent US arms manufacturers from supplying their foreign clients.

I assume other European nations will also be finding other places to source arms instead of buying from the US

@darwinwoodka.bsky.social @Nonilex I assume other nations will never again buy American weaponry

@hansbot We can hope..
lost sales.. unemployment ..
civil war2<shrug>.

@Nonilex

If Zelenskyy has a recording of that call, now would be a very good time to leak it. Nothing left to lose.

@Nonilex masto.ai/@Nonilex/114101575717
The WH/Trump is afraid that it will expose the deal he made with Putin. How much money and other benefits he'll get for throwing Ukraine under the bus.