Ukraine reacts to the pause of US military aid

The Ukrainians have expressed their shock and dismay for the United States stopping their military aid to the country, what a politician called a “dangerous” situation.

“We will see very soon the serious consequences: dangerous consequences,” said Oleksandr Merezhko on Tuesday, who presides over the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament, BBC Breakfast on Tuesday.

Merezhko said the pause could begin to have an impact on the field as soon as “in the next few days.”

Ukraine woke up with Tuesday’s news that the United States was “stopping and reviewing” his military aid. A White House official told the American news partner of the BBC that his reason to do so was to “make sure he is contributing to a solution.”

“The president has been clear that he is focused on La Paz. We need our partners to also commit to that goal,” added the White House official.

While the president of the United States, Donald Trump and Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, have not yet commented, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys, Shmyhal, said that his country is still willing to cooperate with the United States and reiterated kyiv’s “thanks” to Washington for his support to date.

However, some Ukrainian parliamentarians have come out to call the “disastrous” decision.

“When we desperately need the American weapons, American support … () It seems that it starts with Russia” to finish it now, said Merezhko.

“I am appealing Mr. Trump so that I do not play with these dangerous problems because we are talking about lives.”

Merezhko said the decision also shines “a new light” In the spit of the Oval office On Friday between Zelensky and the president and vice president of the United States, which Merezhko called “an attempt to find justification” to stop military aid.

“It was a show, you know, he played deliberately,” he added.

The United States vice president, JD Vance, said he saw “big problems” with accusations that Trump is on the side of Russian president Vladimir Putin, when asked during a Fox News Channel Hannity interview on Monday.

Vance said people had to accept that Trump “not only assumes that everything Russians say is true.”

“He is negotiating with them. There is a shot and takes. There is a trust, but (we) we verify. That is called diplomacy. We used to respect that in Washington.”

For Kyiv, the pause is equivalent to the blockade of a great life. The last time this happened, due to political disagreements in the United States Congress, Zelensky said that Ukraine directly lost lives and lands as a result.

Near the western border of Ukraine with Poland, there are frequent military aid convoys with police runners that make their way to the frontline lines, bringing armor and ammunition for exhausted troops.

The questions are still unanswered on whether Ukraine will still receive ammunition for US weapons already delivered, or if Washington will continue to share intelligence with Kyiv.

A Ukrainian defense group said Trump was “hanging the Ukrainians to dry and giving Russia the green light to continue marching west.”

MP Ukrainian Volodymyr Aryev described the pause as a “very painful blow.” Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko said it was a “catastrophe” that they saw coming, but argued that “not everything is lost.”

“Roosevelt and Churchill are turning in their tombs. The United States has put on the side of the global evil.” Ukrainian blogger and activist Yuri Kasyanov said.

Another blogger, Leonid Shvets, responded sarcastically: “Thank you America! You have gone crazy.”

The reactions of the European allies of Ukraine have also begun to arrive.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, has not yet responded directly to the pause, but Minister Angela Rayner told the BBC Radio 4 program that it was “an issue for the United States … we are focused on supporting Ukraine, bringing the United States around the table.”

She said that Sir Keir would not “lead to dialogue on open waves,” and added that the United Kingdom government had increased its support to Ukraine in recent days and is committed to peace, as it believes that the United States is.

The Minister of Europe of France, Benjamin Haddad, was more advanced on the subject.

Speaking on French television, he said that pause made peace a more remote idea, “because it would only strengthen the hand of the aggressor in the ground: Russia.”

The Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, published in X that a “sovereign, Pro Western,” Ukraine made his country “stronger and more safe”, adding: “Who questions this obvious truth contributes to the triumph of Putin.”

Additional reports from Vitaly Shevchenko and Paul Kirby