{"id":14135,"date":"2025-04-12T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14135\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:58:09","slug":"europe-vows-more-arms-for-ukraine-as-us-takes-backseat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14135\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Vows More Arms for Ukraine as US Takes Backseat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/nextgendefense.com\/\" aria-label=\"Next Generation defense, reported today (1)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Next-Generation-defense-reported-today-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"1470\" height=\"620\" style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s European allies vowed Friday to <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/03\/15\/eu-ukraine-billion-euros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step up weapons deliveries<\/a> as support from the United States dries up under President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The US leader has switched Washington\u2019s focus from backing Kyiv\u2019s fight against Russia\u2019s invasion to trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/02\/13\/trump-putin-ukraine-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">negotiate a peace deal<\/a> with President <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> to halt the war.<\/p>\n<p>Britain and Germany took the reins of a meeting of Ukraine\u2019s backers at NATO\u2019s headquarters in Brussels \u2014 that used to be chaired by the United States under president <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>US Defense Secretary <strong>Pete Hegseth<\/strong> dialed into the talks via video call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the weeks to come, we will see what\u2019s going to happen with the US participation, with the US support. I am not able to have a look in the crystal ball,\u201d German defense minister <strong>Boris Pistorius<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take on more responsibility as Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British defense minister <strong>John Healey<\/strong> said overall some 21 billion euros ($24 billion) more has been promised towards <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/uk-ukraines-sea-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helping arm Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said London was looking to surge support worth $450 million \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/thedefensepost.com\/2025\/01\/10\/uk-coalition-30000-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thousands of drones<\/a> \u2014 to Kyiv\u2019s fighters on the front line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2025 is the critical year for this war in Ukraine, and now is the critical moment in that war,\u201d Healey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sending a signal to Putin, but we are also sending a message to Ukraine, and we are saying to Ukraine, we stand with you in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s defense minister, <strong>Rustem Umerov<\/strong>, said that \u201cEurope is taking over the lead in security assistance, for which we are thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a share of responsibilities, European partners are taking the lead and the US is beside us and focused on the peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s European allies vowed Friday to step up weapons deliveries as support from the United States dries up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6178,2000,299,5187,332,657,9746,7386,49,9747,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-14135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-ukraine-military-aid","15":"tag-ukraine-military-support","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-us-military-aid","18":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114325822131581605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}