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The United States is halting immoderate weapons shipments to Ukraine amid its warfare with Russia, the White House confirmed Tuesday.
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CBS News successful a connection that the "decision was made to enactment America's interests archetypal following" a Defense Department "review of our nation's subject enactment and assistance to different countries crossed the globe."
A U.S. authoritative told CBS News the determination was implicit concerns astir U.S. subject stockpiles falling excessively low.
The Trump medication did not instantly corroborate which weapons were being pulled from transportation oregon the standard of the pullback.
Kelly added, "The spot of the United States Armed Forces remains unquestioned — conscionable inquire Iran," successful notation to the U.S. strikes past month connected 3 Iranian atomic facilities.
The U.S. has provided Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars successful subject assistance since Russia's full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.
Soldiers from a fiber-optic drone portion of the 93rd Brigade trial the drones earlier going to the beforehand lines successful Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, connected June 17, 2025.
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In aboriginal March, pursuing a confrontational Oval Office meeting betwixt President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the White House announced it was pausing subject aid to Ukraine that had already been earmarked by the Biden administration. It besides said it was pausing intelligence sharing to Ukraine.
The intermission connected some fronts was lifted astir a week aboriginal erstwhile Ukraine responded positively to talks implicit a imaginable ceasefire, which ne'er materialized astatine the time.
Then, successful precocious April, the U.S. and Ukraine reached a deal that would springiness the U.S. entree to Ukraine's mineral reserves. As portion of the tenets of the deal, according to Ukrainian officials, the U.S. would lend successful the signifier of subject assistance to a associated U.S.-Ukraine fund.
Malcolm Chalmers, lawman director-general of the Royal United Services Institute subject deliberation tank, told CBS News successful March that astir 20% of Ukraine's subject hardware is supplied by the U.S., with 25% provided by Europe and the remainder of the world, and 55% produced successful Ukraine.
Kristin Brown contributed to this report.
Faris Tanyos is simply a quality exertion for CBSNews.com, wherever helium writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He antecedently worked arsenic a integer quality shaper astatine respective section quality stations up and down the West Coast.
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