{"id":247829,"date":"2025-07-08T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247829\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:09:12","slug":"trump-to-send-more-weapons-to-ukraine-in-policy-u-turn-as-country-is-getting-hit-very","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247829\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to send more weapons to Ukraine in policy U-turn as country is ‘getting hit very…"},"content":{"rendered":"

8 July 2025, 12:01<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump has said the US will send more weapons to Ukraine. Picture: Getty.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump has said the US will send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after air defence shipments to the war-torn country were paused. <\/p>\n

Speaking at the White House alongside a US and Israeli delegation, Trump said he was “not happy” with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and that Ukraine was “getting hit very hard”.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re going to send some more weapons. We have to \u2013 they have to be able to defend themselves,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re getting hit very hard. We\u2019re going to have to send more weapons.<\/p>\n

“Defensive weapons, primarily, but they\u2019re getting hit very, very hard.”<\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong>‘This is very meaningful’: Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize amid Gaza ceasefire talks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Read more: <\/strong>Trump delays tariffs on 14 countries until August<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump, second left, meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday. Picture: Alamy.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, the Pentagon said it will send additional defensive weapons to Ukraine at the request of Trump, reversing a Pentagon decision a week ago to pause air defence shipments which were already heading to the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the weapons would “ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure a lasting peace and ensure that the killing stops”.<\/p>\n

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said at the time that the decision to pause shipments to Ukraine was made “to put America\u2019s interests first”.<\/p>\n

Among the armaments reported to have been placed on pause last week were Patriot air defence missiles and precision artillery shells.<\/p>\n

Trump’s U-turn comes after days of relentless Russian drone and missile barrages on Ukrainian cities, including the country’s capital Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 July 2025, 12:01 Donald Trump has said the US will send more weapons to Ukraine. Picture: Getty.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-247829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114817306749526335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247829","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=247829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}