The sky of Ukraine has clearly darkened on Wednesday July 2, at the announcement of a « pause » In the delivery of crucial American anti -aircraft systems to cope with the rain of missiles and drones launched daily by Russia. After hovering doubt at the NATO summit, on June 24 and 25 in The Hague, Donald Trump carried out his threat “To give priority to American interests”said Deputy White House spokesperson Anna Kelly.
This decision, supported by the Defense Under-Secretary for Politics, Elbridge Colby, a fervent defender of the American pivot to Asia and very influential in the Pentagon, was endorsed on Wednesday by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. It provides for a suspension of the delivery to Ukraine of Patriotic anti-missile missiles, but also of 155 mm artillery shells, GMLS soil-to-ground missiles, anti-tank missiles, soil-to-airrger missiles and air-to-air missiles for F-16 planes.
Russia was immediately delighted. “From what we understand, this decision was motivated by (…) A lack of weapons in warehouses. But, anywhere, the fewer weapons provided to Ukraine, the more the end of the “special military operation” is close “said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov.
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