{"id":250261,"date":"2025-07-09T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250261\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:23:12","slug":"as-trump-administration-bickers-about-arms-halt-russia-hits-ukraine-with-missiles-only-us-patriots-can-stop-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/250261\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump administration bickers about arms halt, Russia hits Ukraine with missiles only US Patriots can stop \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine shot down most of the drones, and Iskander ballistic missiles launched at its territory. But all six of Russia\u2019s newest aeroballistic Kinzhal made it past air defenses, as Ukraine faces an acute shortage of the U.S. Patriot missile systems it needs to stop them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly Patriots can shoot down\u201d Kinzhals, said Yurii Ihnat, a Ukrainian air force spokesperson.<\/p>\n

The Patriot shortfall, caused by the increasing number of drones and missiles Russia has been deploying against Ukraine over the summer, was exacerbated by the Pentagon\u2019s decision last week<\/a> to halt shipments of some air defense missiles to Kyiv.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to reinstate weapons shipments to Ukraine this week after his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, reportedly<\/a> authorized the halt without informing the White House. POLITICO reported Wednesday<\/a> that the decision was made on a recommendation by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon\u2019s top policy chief.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutin is not treating human beings right. So we\u2019re sending some defensive weapons, and I\u2019ve approved that\u201d Trump told journalists<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

When asked who ordered the pause of shipments, Trump said: \u201cI don\u2019t know. Why don\u2019t you tell me?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine shot down most of the drones, and Iskander ballistic missiles launched at its territory. But all six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2594,32,2595,2000,299,332,9322,657,49,333,2601,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-250261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-russian-politics","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","19":"tag-war","20":"tag-war-in-ukraine","21":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114822316835661480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250261","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=250261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}