{"id":250208,"date":"2025-07-09T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250208\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:55:09","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-us-weapons-supply-pause-caught-trump-off-guard-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250208\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: US weapons supply pause \u2018caught Trump off guard\u2019 | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Asked if he wanted to <strong>see further sanctions against Russia<\/strong>, Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019m looking at it.\u201d On Monday he said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Russia\u2019s president and would send \u201cmore weapons\u201d to Ukraine, reversing the Pentagon\u2019s pause.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Russian authorities claimed a Ukrainian drone attack on a <strong>beach in Kursk city killed three people, including a Russian serviceman<\/strong> and injured seven. Alexander Khinshtein, the acting regional governor, claimed the Russian national guard member had been trying to evacuate people from the scene because of a drone attack. Khinshtein also claimed a Ukrainian <strong>drone hit a hospital in the Kursk oblast town of Rylsk<\/strong>, injuring two people, blowing out windows and setting a roof on fire. There was no independent confirmation and throughout the war Ukraine has denied targeting civilians, with its strikes inside Russia focused on military facilities and personnel, individual senior commanders, and strategic national infrastructure such as fuel depots and refineries.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Russia\u2019s <strong>Federal Security Service (FSB) will be allowed to set up its own pre-trial detention centres<\/strong> under a bill passed by the lower house of parliament. The power was previously abolished with the demise of the Soviet-era KGB. Lawmakers say its revival is a response to a spike in the intelligence and subversive activities of foreign powers since Russia started the war.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A group of men have been convicted over an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/08\/three-men-found-guilty-over-london-arson-attack-on-ukraine-linked-firms\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arson attack ordered by the banned Russian terrorist group Wagner<\/a> on an east London warehouse used to supply <strong>humanitarian aid and StarLink satellite equipment to Ukraine<\/strong>. They went on to plot more arson attacks in London\u2019s Mayfair district and the kidnap of a Russian dissident but were ultimately unsuccessful. Old Bailey judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said the convicted men would be sentenced on a date to be fixed in the autumn.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked if he wanted to see further sanctions against Russia, Trump replied: \u201cI\u2019m looking at it.\u201d On Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-250208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822206500043948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250208","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=250208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}