Trump says U.S. has given Ukraine too many weapons in first public comments on pause in shipments

President Donald Trump complained connected Thursday (July 3, 2025) that the United States provided excessively galore weapons to Ukraine nether the erstwhile administration, his archetypal nationalist comments on the intermission successful immoderate shipments arsenic Russia escalates its latest offensive.

Speaking to reporters earlier boarding Air Force One for a formation to Iowa, Mr. Trump said erstwhile President Joe Biden “emptied retired our full state giving them weapons, and we person to marque definite that we person capable for ourselves.”

Air defence missiles, precision-guided artillery and different weapons are among those being withheld from Ukraine. The state suffered a caller barrage overnight, with warnings of ballistic missiles followed by explosions successful Kyiv. The dependable of instrumentality weapon occurrence and drone engines could beryllium heard crossed the capital.

Mr. Trump, who besides spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday, suggested helium wasn't wholly cutting disconnected American assistance to Ukraine.

“We've fixed truthful galore weapons,” helium said, adding that "we are moving with them and trying to assistance them.”

Mr. Trump said helium had a “pretty agelong call” with Mr. Putin that “didn't marque immoderate progress” successful resolving the war, which the Republican President had promised to swiftly bring to a conclusion.

“I’m not blessed astir that," helium said.

The Kremlin described the speech arsenic “frank and constructive” — the sixth publically disclosed chat betwixt the 2 leaders since Mr. Trump returned to the White House.

While discussing the concern astir Iran and successful the broader Middle East, Mr. Putin emphasized the request to resoluteness each differences “exclusively by governmental and diplomatic means,” said Yuri Ushakov, his Foreign Affairs Adviser.

The leaders agreed that Russian and U.S. officials volition support interaction connected the issue, helium added.

The United States struck 3 sites successful Iran connected June 22, inserting itself into Israel’s war aimed astatine destroying Tehran's atomic program.

On the struggle successful Ukraine, Mr. Ushakov said Mr. Trump emphasized his propulsion for a speedy halt to the fighting, and Mr. Putin voiced Moscow’s readiness to prosecute talks with Kyiv, noting the erstwhile rounds successful Turkey yielded humanitarian results.

At the aforesaid time, the Russian person emphasized that Moscow volition question to execute its goals successful Ukraine and region the “root causes” of the conflict, Mr. Ushakov said.

“Russia volition not backmost down from these goals,” Mr. Ushakov told reporters aft the call.

Mr. Putin has argued helium sent troops into Ukraine successful February 2022 to fend disconnected a menace to Russia posed by Ukraine's propulsion to articulation NATO and to support Russian speakers successful Ukraine — arguments rejected by Kyiv and its allies. He insisted that immoderate prospective bid woody indispensable spot Ukraine wantonness its NATO bid and admit Russia's territorial gains.

Mr. Ushakov said a suspension of immoderate U.S. weapons shipments to Ukraine wasn’t discussed successful the Trump-Putin call.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful Denmark aft gathering with large European Union backers that helium whitethorn speech to Mr. Trump successful the coming days astir the suspension.

“I anticipation that possibly tomorrow, oregon adjacent days, these days, I volition talk astir it with President Trump,” helium said.

The erstwhile publically known telephone betwixt Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin came June 14, a time aft Israel attacked Iran.

The resumed interaction betwixt Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin appeared to bespeak their involvement successful mending U.S.-Russian ties that person plummeted to their lowest constituent since the Cold War.

Mr. Ushakov said the leaders discussed developments successful Syria and expressed involvement successful pursuing bilateral projects successful the vigor assemblage and abstraction exploration, during what helium described arsenic “frank, businesslike and factual conversation."

The Kremlin advisor added that Putin adjacent suggested that the U.S. and Russia could speech movies promoting “traditional values shared by america and the Trump administration.”

On Tuesday (July 1, 2025), Mr. Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron held their archetypal nonstop telephone telephone successful astir 3 years.