Kateryna Hirnyk07:44, 08.07.25

He told Zelensky that he did not order the Pentagon to freeze arms supplies.

US President Donald Trump said in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that he was not responsible for the suspension of arms supplies to Kyiv, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing sources familiar with the details of the conversation.

“Trump told Zelensky in a phone call on Friday that he had ordered an inspection of the Pentagon’s ammunition stockpile after the US struck Iran’s nuclear facilities last month, but did not order the department to freeze arms supplies,” the article says.

At the same time, White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt said at a briefing on Monday that it was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, upon taking office, who ordered the review “to make sure that everything that goes outside the country is in America’s interests.”

Also, as sources noted, Trump assured Zelensky that the United States would provide “as much military assistance as they can.”

The Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has completed an assessment of the frozen aid to Ukraine, a Defense Department spokesman said. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Kaine, is preparing a recommendation to Hegseth on whether to resume the supplies.

Also, according to the publication’s sources, the White House National Security Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss how to move forward with arms supplies to Ukraine.

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Politico reported that the US may resume supplying some weapons to Ukraine after meetings between Special Envoy Keith Kellogg and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustam Umerov this week and next week.

On July 7, Donald Trump announced the transfer of weapons to the Ukrainian army.

The Pentagon later announced that it would send additional weapons to Ukraine at the behest of President Donald Trump.

(C)UNIAN 2025