The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Sunday the sending of Patriot Antiarea Defense systems to Ukraine, ensuring that it will be the European Union who will pay for these missile systems that kyiv “desperately needs” before the attacks of the Russian army.
“I have not agreed the number yet, but they will have some because they need protection, but the European Union is paying for it. We are not paying for anything, but we are going to send them. It will be a business for us and we will send them Patriots,” Trump told the media after attending at the end of the FIFA Club World Cup.
Patriot are considered one of the main antibalistic defense systems of the United States Army, as they serve to intercept attacks released by adversaries by land and air. Trump had advanced on Thursday that he reached an agreement to send weapons to NATO so that the organization later sends them to Ukraine and that the Atlantic Alliance “pays 100 %” for them, so it is expected to be a central point of its conversation with Routte, who will be this Monday and Tuesday in Washington.
“We are going to have a meeting with the Secretary General (from NATO), it comes tomorrow, but basically we will send several pieces of very sophisticated military team. They will pay us 100% for it and that is the way we want it,” he said. The president said that the US has given 350,000 million dollars to help Ukraine, while Europe has only provided 100,000 million dollars to the Russian invasion.
The statements of the US president arrive after Washington has resumed the shipment of weapons to kyiv, after the suspension of supply ordered more than a week ago by the Pentagon that alluded to a review of the assistance to other countries of the world. “What we are doing is that the weapons that are going out go to NATO, and then NATO will be giving those weapons (to Ukraine) and NATO is paying for those weapons,” he said.
SANCTION expectations to Russia
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will receive on Monday the NATO general, Mark Rutte, who will also meet with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and with the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, as well as with “members of Congress”, as indicated by the Atlantic Alliance on his website. The United States president is expected to announce a turn in his policy towards Russia with new sanctions.
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the closest to Trump, asked people to “keep abreast” about the announcement that the president promised about Russia on Monday. “The game, about the invasion of Putin to Ukraine, is about to change. I hope, in the next few days, to see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine be defended. I hope, in the next few days, that there are tariffs and sanctions available to (use) President Trump who had never had before,” he told the CBS channel.
The visit of the NATO leader will also happen the day that Donald Trump promised “a major announcement about Russia” after weeks of expressing his frustration with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for his refusal to accept a truce and stop the bombings on Ukrainian territory.
Graham said that this could involve a package of sanctions to Russia, as he and more than 80 legislators support legislation that would allow Trump to impose sanctions such as a 500% tariff to countries that help Russia’s offensive and the seizure of goods. “It has maximum flexibility, but we are going against people who keep Putin in the business and with additional sanctions on Russia. This is truly a deck available for President Trump to end this war,” said the senator.
The trip of the secretary general of NATO to Washington also produces just three weeks after the Summit of the Organization in The Hague, in which the allies agreed to allocate 5% of GDP A defense, with flexibility for Spain. Trump, who in the past threatened to break the Atlantic Alliance created in 1949, said Saturday that with this agreement he recovered “La Voz” of the United States in the organization. “They took advantage of our country in commerce, in the military, in NATO. They saw that I solved the NATO problem last week and now we have all countries paying substantially more money,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
