Trump's decision to halt Ukraine aid sparks backlash
Donald Trump has decided to suspend military aid to Ukraine, which provoked an immediate reaction in Kyiv. "It looks like siding with Russia," Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of the foreign affairs committee of the Ukrainian parliament, told the BBC.
Donald Trump halted military aid to Ukraine, including weapons already in Poland and waiting to be delivered to the front. The decision was likely made following a confrontation on Friday between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. The Ukrainian president was asked to leave the White House. No agreement was reached on resources. The United States seems to push Kyiv to yield and agree to an arrangement with Washington this way.
Trump halts arms deliveries. Reactions in Ukraine
Trump's decision met with an immediate response from Ukrainian parliamentarians. "We'll see very soon the serious consequences - dangerous consequences," Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the foreign affairs committee of the Ukrainian parliament, told BBC Breakfast. Merezhko stated that the suspension of aid may begin to impact the situation on the front "in the coming days."
"I'm appealing to Mr Trump not to play with these dangerous issues because we're talking about lives," Merezhko commented in an interview with the BBC.
The BBC highlights that near Ukraine's western border with Poland, police-escorted convoys with military aid regularly move towards the front line. The British broadcaster states outright that "a lifeline of armour and ammunition for exhausted troops."
Ukrainian parliamentarian Volodymyr Aryev described Trump's decision as a "very painful blow." MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said it's a "catastrophe" that was predicted but added, "not all is lost." Ukrainian blogger and activist Yuri Kasyanov stated, "Roosevelt and Churchill are turning in their graves. America has sided with the global evil."
