The president of the United States, Donald Trump, a country to which he will provide Patriot anti -aircraft defense systems, but announced that the account will be paid by another: it will be the European Union (EU) that is commissioned, he clarified, to pay for that armament.
Trump justified that decision, which comes less than two weeks after the Pentagon abruptly interrupted kyiv’s assistance in his defense against Russian invasion, for his anger with the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, of whom the Republican told journalists that “speaks beautiful, but then bombards everyone at night.”
“I don’t like that,” Trump added, who has given signs in recent days that patience with his Russian homologous, little or nothing willing to sign a high fire with kyiv, is running out. The president of the United States gave a discounted during the campaign that took him back to the White House that would be able to end that war in Europe in a single day, a promise that has not yet turned almost six months later.
The “European Union will pay for it [los Patriot]”Trump said Sunday night [madrugada del lunes en horario peninsular español] To journalists at the Andrews military base, near Washington, where he flew after attending the FIFA Club World Cup final at the Metlife Stadium, in East Rutherford (New Jersey). The president did not reveal how many anti -aircraft batteries will come to Ukraine, but he insisted that the operation will be “a business” for the United States, which will “pay anything.”
Rutte’s visit
The Ukraine War will be one of the issues that lead this week’s agenda in Washington, which begins with the visit on Monday of NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte. From that encounter it is confident that more details about Trump’s announcement about the Patriot, crucial for the defense of the attacks released by the Kremlin by land and air. There was first news from the meeting thanks to an NATO ad. Then, Trump confirmed it in an informal talk with reporters.
The president of the United States had already announced last Thursday an agreement to send weapons to NATO, which will cover its cost and then deliver them to kyiv. If the operation will come true, it will be the first time in the almost six months of its second mandate that kyiv receives a US weapon game.
According to the Washington Political Information Website Axioswhich cites two sources familiar with the president’s plans, Trump will also soon announce a new plan to assemble Ukraine. Something like this would confirm a change in attitude with respect to kyiv of the current US administration, which has an influential group of Falcones contrary to the involvement of the United States in distant wars. The sending of the Patriot, of American manufacture, satisfies a request for aid, repeatedly expressed, of the Ukrainian leader, Volodimir Zelenski, to be able to intensify in recent weeks.
Zelenski had assured last Thursday in Rome, where the Fourth Conference for the reconstruction of UECE was held. In that appointment, President Ukraine clarified that he had asked for 10 of those defensive systems to Washington and that Germany had pledged to cover the cost of two of them and Norway, on the other, while the financing of the rest was “negotiating.”
Assemble the assaulted country. General Keith Kellogg, a special envoy for Trump Ukraine, was the face of that change in the Roman conference. Kellogg had been relegated by its proximity to kyiv’s positions. Now that the president of the United States has changed attitude with Putin, the general seems to have regained his influence on the administration, as would demonstrate the fact that he has traveled to kyiv on Monday, where he has seen with Zelenski.
“President Trump has said that if the nations fight for their sovereignty, we will fight with them. This is why Ukraine is fighting,” Trump’s special envoy said in Rome. “Ukraine has fought without hesitation, and the West has the obligation to ensure that sacrifice has not been in vain.”
Trump gave several times during the past week that his sympathies for Putin have given way to other feelings: frustration and impatience with the Russian president. At the sixth meeting of his cabinet, last Tuesday, the Republican declared: “I am not happy with Putin, I say it now, because he is killing many people.” “It takes us with many nonsense. You try to know the truth. And he always shows his friendlier face, but the conversations end up lacking meaning.”
