{"id":264978,"date":"2025-07-14T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264978\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:08:09","slug":"trump-does-deal-with-nato-allies-to-arm-ukraine-and-warns-russia-of-severe-sanctions-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264978\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump does deal with Nato allies to arm Ukraine and warns Russia of severe sanctions | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump said he has sealed an agreement with Nato allies that will lead to large-scale arms deliveries to Ukraine<\/a>, including Patriot missiles, and warned Russia that it will face severe sanctions if Moscow does not make peace within 50 days.<\/p>\n

After a meeting with the Nato<\/a> secretary general, Mark Rutte, Trump said they had agreed \u201ca very big deal\u201d, in which \u201cbillions of dollars\u2019 worth of military equipment is going to be purchased from the United States, going to Nato \u2026 And that\u2019s going to be quickly distributed to the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking in the White House alongside a clearly delighted Rutte, the US president said the arms deliveries would be comprehensive and would include the Patriot missile batteries that Ukraine desperately needs for its air defences against a daily Russian aerial onslaught.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s everything: it\u2019s Patriots. It\u2019s all of them. It\u2019s a full complement, with the batteries,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

He did not go into any more detail, but made clear the weapons would be entirely paid for by Washington\u2019s European allies, and that initial missile deliveries would come \u201cwithin days\u201d from European stocks, on the understanding they would be replenished with US supplies.<\/p>\n

At a White House lunch with religious leaders later in the day, Trump said the deal was \u201cfully approved, fully done\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll send them a lot of weapons of all kinds and they\u2019re going to deliver those weapons immediately \u2026 and they\u2019re going to pay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At his meeting with Trump, Rutte said there was a significant number of Nato allies – including Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Canada \u2013 ready to rearm Ukraine as part of the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all want to be part of this. And this is only the first wave. There will be more,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said last week that Berlin was ready to acquire<\/a> additional Patriot systems.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed there was one country, which he did not name, but which had \u201c17 Patriots getting ready to be shipped\u201d. Monday\u2019s deal would include that stockpile, or \u201ca big portion of the 17\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Such an arms delivery would represent a significant reinforcement of Ukraine\u2019s air defences. Kyiv is currently thought to have only six Patriot batteries, at a time when it is coming under frequent and intense Russian drone and missile bombardments.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Trump expressed increased frustration with Vladimir Putin, whom he accused of giving the impression of pursuing peace while intensifying attacks on Ukrainian cities. He gave the Russian president a new deadline of 50 days to end the fighting or face 100% tariffs on Russian goods, and more importantly, sweeping \u201csecondary tariffs\u201d, suggesting trade sanctions would be imposed on countries who continue to pay for Russian oil and other commodities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe secondary tariffs are very, very powerful,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

The announcement marked a dramatic change for the administration, both in substance and tone.<\/p>\n

The Trump White House had not only made clear it would continue its predecessor\u2019s policy of continuing to supply Ukraine out of US stocks, but the president and his top officials have been derisive about Kyiv\u2019s chances of prevailing.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump delivered his most admiring language on Ukraine and its European backers to date, with Rutte on one side and the US vice-president, JD Vance, the administration\u2019s biggest sceptic on US involvement in Europe, on the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey fought with tremendous courage, and they continue to fight with tremendous courage,\u201d Trump said of the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n

\u201cEurope has a lot of spirit for this war,\u201d he said, suggesting he had been taken by surprise by the level of commitment shown by European allies at the Nato summit in The Hague last month. \u201cThe level of esprit de corps spirit that they have is amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cThey really think it\u2019s very, very important.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving a strong Europe is a very good thing. It\u2019s a very good thing. So I\u2019m okay with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump described his deepening disillusion with Putin, and suggested his wife, Melania, may have played a role in pointing out the Russian leader\u2019s duplicity in talks over a peace deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy conversations with him are always very pleasant. I say, isn\u2019t that a very lovely conversation? And then the missiles go off that night,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI go home, I tell the first lady: I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation. She said: Really? Another city was just hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukrainian regional officials reported at least six civilians killed and 30 injured by Russian bombing in the past 24 hours. The country\u2019s air force said Moscow had attacked with 136 drones and four S-300 or S-400 missiles.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I don\u2019t want to say he\u2019s an assassin, but he\u2019s a tough guy. It\u2019s been proven over the years. He\u2019s fooled a lot of people,\u201d Trump said, listing his predecessors in the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t fool me. But what I do say is that at a certain point, ultimately talk doesn\u2019t talk. It\u2019s got to be action,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Russian officials and pro-war bloggers on Monday largely shrugged off Trump\u2019s announcement, declaring it to be less significant than anticipated.<\/p>\n

Konstantin Kosachev, a senior Russian lawmaker, wrote on Telegram that it amounted to \u201chot air\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was broadly welcomed in Kyiv, where there has been longstanding and deep anxiety about Trump\u2019s intentions. Andrii Kovalenko, a member of Ukraine\u2019s national security and defence council, posted a one-word response: \u201cCool.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was still scepticism however, over whether even the promise of new weaponry for Ukraine combined with the threat of trade sanctions would be enough to halt Russia\u2019s offensive.<\/p>\n

Illia Ponomarenko, a Ukrainian journalist and blogger wrote: \u201cHow many Ukrainian lives could have been saved if, from the very beginning, Trump had listened to wise and honest people about helping Ukraine, instead of the artful lies of that cannibal Putin on the phone?\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump said he has sealed an agreement with Nato allies that will lead to large-scale arms deliveries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-264978","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\/114853163988764302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264978","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=264978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}