"We gave you $350 billion for military equipment," Trump said to Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in February 2025.

The Trump administration agreed today to immediately lift its pause on intelligence sharing and military assistance for Ukraine. The announcement followed a meeting in Saudi Arabia during which Ukrainian officials said they would support a U.S. proposal for a 30-day cease-fire with Russia.

US President Donald Trump has gone all in with his effort to strongarm Kyiv into peace negotiations with Russia, suspending US military aid to Ukraine with immediate effect.

The U.S. move won’t have an immediate impact on the battlefield, where Kyiv’s forces are struggling to stem a relentless Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have slowed Russian advances along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, where Russia is slowly gaining ground at a huge human and material cost.

The deal announced on Tuesday delivered new momentum to efforts to halt the fighting, with the ball for any truce now in Russia’s court, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The European Union should be prepared to go as far as doubling its military aid to Ukraine this year to 40 billion euros ($43 billion) if necessary, according to a discussion paper by the bloc's diplomatic service seen by Reuters on Friday.

Germany is expected to allocate an additional €3 billion in military aid to Ukraine. There are no more obstacles to this, said Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Tagesschau reports.

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