United States stopping some weapons shipments to Ukraine, says the White House

The United States is stopping some arms shipments to Ukraine in the midst of its war with Russia, the White House confirmed on Tuesday.

The White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly, told News themezone in a statement that “the decision to put the interests of the United States first after the” Department of Defense “of the Military Support and Military Assistance of our nation to other countries around the world was made.”

An American official told News themezone that the measure was about concerns about US military reserves that fell too low.

The Trump administration did not immediately confirm which weapons were withdrawing from the delivery or scale of the setback.

Kelly added: “The force of the United States armed forces still is not presented, just ask Iran”, referring to the US strikes last month In three Iranian nuclear facilities.

Elbridge Colby, Department of Defense under Secretary of Policy, said in a separate statement on Tuesday night in response to the extent that “the Defense Department continues to provide the President of solid options to continue military aid to Ukraine, according to his goal of putting this tragic war at an end. At the same time, the department is rigorously examining and the approach of his goal, so that the forces of the forces of the United States are also presented of the administration are rigorously.

The United States has provided Ukraine tens of billions of dollars in military aid from the large -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in February 2022.

In early March, after a Oval Office Meeting of Confrontation Between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the White House announced that it was Military aid pause to Ukraine that had already been assigned by the Biden administration. He also said he was stopping Intelligence exchange To Ukraine.

The pause on both fronts was built approximately a week later when Ukraine He responded positively To conversations on a high potential fire, which never materialized at that time.

Then, at the end of April, the United States and Ukraine came to a deal That would give the United States access to Ukraine mineral reserves. As part of the principles of the Agreement, according to Ukrainian officials, the United States would contribute in the form of military assistance to a joint US-UKRAINE fund.

Malcolm Chalmers, deputy general director of the Group of Military Experts of the Royal United Services Institute, told News themezone in March that about 20% of Ukraine military hardware is supplied by the United States, with 25% provided by Europe and the rest of the world, and 55% produced in Ukraine.

Kristin Brown contributed to this report.

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