The United States has cut intelligence sharing with Ukraine, which has seriously influenced the flow of important information Kyiv uses to defend against Russian attacks.
The latest battle comes after Donald Trump suspended military assistance to Kiev, and despite the US leader boasting at an address to Congress on Tuesday to receive a letter from the Ukrainian president who expressed the willingness to come to the negotiating table to end the three -year war.
“We have taken a step back and pause and review all aspects of this relationship,” said Mr. Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz.
On Thursday, European leaders will hold crisis interviews in Brussels to support Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he would open conversations with European allies to expand his country’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent. Europe is in a “new era,” he said in a TV statement.
The United States has provided critical intelligence to Ukraine for his fight against Moscow’s forces, including Information, which helped Vladimir Putin’s drive to seize Kyiv at the start of his full scale invasion in February 2022.
Volodymyr Zelensky had bent on Tuesday night for the intense pressure of Mr. Trump and called the White House spit “regrettably” in a statement while promising to go into peace talks.
“There has been a positive movement. We expect first results next week,” Mr. Zelensky said in his Wednesday evening video address sent on social media.
Sources have told The independent It was supposed to be supplies with US Patriot missiles to Ukraine stop, it would not be able to defend itself within a few days.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe called the Intelligence Pension a “break” and said it came after the catastrophic meeting in the Oval Office on Friday. Mr. Ratcliffe said Mr. Trump would know that Mr. Zelensky was serious with peace.
“On the military front and the intelligence front, the break that made it possible to happen will go away, and I think we will work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have,” said Mr Ratcliffe.
Ukraine could soon receive intelligence – and military support – from the United States, when Mr. Zelensky shows to Mr. Trump, he is serious to participate in talks about Trump’s terms, Waltz said at Fox News.
“I think that if we can nail these negotiations down and go towards these negotiations and actually put some confidence construction measures on the table, then the president will look hard to lift this break,” he said. “We must know that both sides sincerely negotiate a partial, then permanent peace.”
Andriy Yermak, the head of Mr. Zelensy’s office, said he had spoken to Mr Waltz on the phone on Wednesday to “discuss the next steps towards a fair and lasting peace”.
“We also exchanged views on security issues and adaptation of positions within the framework of bilateral connections between Ukraine and the United States,” he wrote at X.
“We have planned a meeting for our teams in the near future to continue this important work.”
After the announcement, Sir Keir Stormer Commons told it was important to make sure the United States did not release Ukraine.
“I have always been aware that we have to make sure the United States, Britain, Europe and Ukraine are working together, but we must not choose between the US and Europe – we never have historically and we will not do it now,” he said.
Later, Mr. Macron said in the television statement that he would discuss the possibility of using his country’s nuclear deterrent in the light of threats from Russia. He added, “I would think the United States will stand by us. But we have to be ready if that’s not the case.”
Meanwhile, British defense secretary John Healy will join his American colleague Pete Jegseth for a bilateral meeting on Thursday. Mr. Healey’s journey was agreed last week after Sir Keir announced an increase in Britain’s defense expenses of 2.5 percent of GDP.
The suspension of intelligence is the latest in numerous questions that test the US -Ukraine relationship.
Mykhailo podolyak, a senior adviser for Mr. Zelensky, told The independent That they focused on becoming “pragmatic” despite what he described as an “emotional discussion” in the White House last week.
He spoke just moments before the American suspension of intelligence, but after the temporary end of military support, he said Mr. Zelensy’s team thought the latter help would be reinstated because it was an important “instrument to keep Russia down and put pressure” on them.
Mr. Trump’s administration, he insisted on, was focused on ending the war in Ukraine, and Kiev needs some form of American support to achieve this. He added that they would soon ask for more military help.
At the saliva in the White House, he insisted that “sometimes emotional conversation is needed, even if it is out of protocol” to make sure the United States and Ukraine are in line.
“There were some ambiguities regarding the interpretation of the war from both the United States and the Ukraine pages that do not allow us to obtain synchronized constructive negotiating positions about the war, Russia, Russian motives and so on,” he said.
“The emotional conversation allowed us to get to more constructive approaches against each other.”
In the weeks that ran up to yesterday’s announcement, the US -Ukraine relationship had taken a monumental hit. They were already strained after Mr. Trump announced that he had held conversations with Mr. Putin and began to US-Russia talks about the restoration of ties, a step that left Kyiv and Europe worried an unfavorable deal could be made over their head.
A first US request for Kyiv to give Washington access to $ 500 billion. Of Ukraine’s untapped critical mineral resources, without compensation of US security guarantees to prevent future Russian aggression, were then decorated by Mr Zelensky as “not a serious” proposal.
The US president then accused the Ukrainian leader of being a “dictator” with a degree of approval as low as 4 percent. Mr. Zelensky’s ratings are closer to 60 percent.
In response, Mr. Zelensky said that Mr. Trump lived in a “disinformation bubble” of Russian production. Then the White House came spit. The only recipient of it, said Ukraine’s allies, was Mr. Putin.
“Of course, Trump wants quick actions and activities. After observing his strategies, we can see that his style of performing politics is to dominate information and diplomatic fields,” adds podolyak.
“But again it’s not about Trump. It’s not about Ukraine’s willingness to sit down at the negotiating table. It’s about Russia.”
Meanwhile, China warned the United States that it was ready to fight “every type of” war as it reciprocated against Mr. Trump’s rising trade tariffs.
The trade war between the two superpowers escalated on Tuesday as Trump wandered his taxes on Chinese goods a total of 20 percent, and China reciprocated by introducing 15 percent tariffs on US agricultural goods.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington said in a post on X: “If war is what the United States wants, whether it is a customs war, a trade war or any other type of war, we are ready to fight until the end.”