MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump pledges more weapons shipments to Ukraine, and French leader Emmanuel Macron pays a state visit to the United Kingdom to back the coalition of the willing. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks over prospects of another war on Iran with Trump. These stories topped newspaper headlines across Russia on Wednesday.
On July 7, President Donald Trump said that the United States must send more weapons to Ukraine. "We are going to send some more weapons. They [the Ukrainians] have to be able to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very hard now. We’re going to send some more weapons — defensive weapons primarily," Trump stated.
The Pentagon, too, affirmed that it would resume weapons deliveries to Ukraine. At Trump’s direction, the US Department of Defense said in a press release on its website, it is sending "additional defensive weapons to Ukraine."
Politico reported earlier that the United States had halted some weapons shipments to Kiev, citing declining US stockpiles of munitions as the official reason behind the decision which was initiated by Elbridge Colby, under secretary of defense for policy, who argues that Washington must direct its military power to deny China hegemony over Asia.
