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President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated\u00a0Oval Office argument\u00a0with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official told CNN on Monday.<\/p>\n
The halt in aid, which came after Trump held a\u00a0series of meetings\u00a0with top national security officials at the White House, could have dire effect on Ukraine\u2019s war-fighting abilities, officials and analysts said. It will remain in place until Trump determines Zelensky has made a commitment to seeking peace talks, one official said, essentially forcing Ukraine to a negotiating table by threatening further losses on the battlefield.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe president has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution,\u201d the White House official said.<\/p>\n
After more than a week of open hostility between Washington and Kyiv, Monday\u2019s pause was the most material sign of how far the relationship has deteriorated since Trump took office.<\/p>\n
The pause will apply to all military equipment not yet inside Ukraine, officials said, and amounts to a direct response to what Trump views as Zelensky\u2019s bad behavior last week.<\/p>\n
Ukraine could likely sustain its current fighting pace for several weeks \u2014 perhaps until the start of the summer \u2014 before a US pause would begin to have a major effect, Western officials said in the wake of the decision. The Biden administration rushed shipments of weapons to Ukraine in its waning days, providing the country with large stockpiles of advanced weapons.<\/p>\n
It is those sophisticated weapons \u2014 including the long-range ATACMS missiles \u2014 that have allowed Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory, a strategy that could suffer if those weapons remain paused.<\/p>\n
While European nations may be able to replace US shipments of artillery, supplemented by Ukraine\u2019s own growing defense industry, the most advanced weapons used by Kyiv come from the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n