Courtney Kuby
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 7 Jul
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The next issue on the weapons, on these the military equipment that the United States has been flowing in. And Rachel, you know.
Whether people are in favor of actually sending these weapons and this equipment to Ukraine or not, there is no doubt that this has been a logistical feat and hurdle to get these billions and billions of dollars of, in some cases, massive equipment, weapons, ammunition into Ukraine immediately. so that they've been able to stave off the Russian offensive that began just over three years ago.
What we've learned late today is that, in fact, the Trump administration, at least for now, again, has paused the delivery of any additional military weapons or equipment to Ukraine. You may say, well, we haven't been hearing about the Trump administration announcing any additional sending of any additional weapons. And that is right.
Basically, the Biden administration used almost all of the money that they had allocated to send to to to buy weapons or to send from U.S. stockpiles and then reimburse U.S. stockpiles for Ukraine. There was about three three point eight or so billion dollars that were left in that. But there's not any money that's still left to reimburse the U.S. military for that.
So that money has basically been paused. There really hasn't been any new spending to Ukraine. But. There was money or there was still additional weapons and equipment that were being sent as part of other disbursements. So, for instance, one of the last presidential drawdown authority announcements had some refurbished vehicles. Those were still being flown into Ukraine. And then.
There's another pot of money that has existed for the last three years called the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. That's sort of longer term weapons systems and equipment that could take years in some cases to deliver to Ukraine. What we found out tonight is that the United States is pausing all of those shipments for now.
And again, just like the Cyber Command decision, it's just not how clear that's going to last. Now, why I keep going back to how long these decisions and these announcements will last is because it will prove whether this really is something that the United States has decided to do.
as part of a negotiation, or whether it is, as some have claimed, that this could be a sign of, in an effort that President Trump has made very clear that he wants to normalize relations with Moscow, that this could be part of a capitulation to that effort, Rachel.
If so, it's not nothing that we are aware of at this point. I mean, and, you know, officials, you know, when the cybercom thing first came up, officials were saying, look, the United States needs to show some good faith here. So is it possible that Russia will give something? Vladimir Zelensky has made it very clear that he doesn't believe that Russia will negotiate in good faith in any way.
At this point, we're not aware of anything that they have given to the US for these things.
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