President Donald Trump said the United States will be sending Ukraine\u2019s armed forces<\/a> additional Patriot air defense missiles and more \u201cvery sophisticated\u201d military equipment, as he expressed frustration at Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s conduct in his country\u2019s three-year-old war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u201cI am very disappointed with President Putin. I thought he was somebody that meant what he said, and he\u2019ll talk so beautifully and then he\u2019ll bomb people at night. We don\u2019t like that,\u201d the president told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday after returning from the FIFA Club World Cup final<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump did not rule out unveiling new sanctions when he meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday, as he noted that he plans to send more weapons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, July 11, 2025. (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)<\/p>\n \u201cWe will send them Patriots which they desperately need because Putin … really surprised a lot of people,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt’s little bit of a problem there, I don’t like it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n Trump also said the European Union would be purchasing the American-made weapons that will be ultimately delivered to Ukraine for use against Russia. He did not specify the number of Patriots bound for Kyiv but he specifically mentioned the famed American-made system, which he said Ukraine needs \u201cbecause they do need protection\u201d as Russia continues to attack civilian targets on a near-nightly basis.<\/p>\n The president\u2019s pledge to send more weapons to Kyiv came days after he issued a none-too-veiled threat of action against Russia after Moscow\u2019s forces hit a Ukrainian maternity hospital<\/a> on Friday, injuring nine people, and a fresh barrage of drones and missiles were launched <\/a>on Ukraine over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, Ukraine\u2019s<\/a> security agency announced that it had tracked down and killed Russian agents <\/a>who assassinated a Ukrainian intelligence officer.<\/p>\n Trump told reporters before a trip to Texas to observe flood damage that they would \u201cbe seeing things happen\u201d with regard to Russia, less than a day after he told NBC News that he\u2019d be making a \u201cmajor announcementt\u201d on the status of the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war this coming Monday.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with the media after attending the FIFA Club World Cup final upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S, July 13, 2025. (REUTERS)<\/p>\n Last week during a cabinet meeting, he praised Kyiv\u2019s armed forces for their bravery as they\u2019ve wielded their American-made equipment while battling back Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n \u201cI will say the Ukrainians were brave, but we gave them the best equipment ever made … we gave them missiles, the latest and the greatest. They were able to shoot down a lot of things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s hard line towards Putin and newfound zeal for arming Ukraine marks a head-spinning reversal for the American leader, who entered office for his second term as a strident critic of U.S. support for Ukraine and has long had a rocky relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> dating back to a now-infamous July 2019 phone call between the two leaders that led to the first of his two impeachment trials in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n But his tone towards Ukraine and Russia has changed in recent weeks as U.S. efforts to broker a ceasefire in the three-year-old conflict have come to naught, a development he is understood to place at the feet of Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n After Pentagon officials went behind his back to halt shipments of weapons to Ukraine for what was described as a review of American weapons stockpile levels, Trump intervened and ordered the deliveries to resume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-263489","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\/114850069641597580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263489","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=263489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Emergency](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Russia_Ukraine_War_80867.jpg\")
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