As pause on Ukraine support has “emboldened Russia,” Trump’s terms for restarting aid are still murky
President Trump may want more than just expectation Mineral and Economic Partnership Agreement To end his pause in military and intelligence support for Ukraine in the war against Russia, the specific terms of his restart aid remain blurred.
“The U.S. President has not said it was over. He said it was suspended. It was transitional.” U.S. special envoy Ukraine Keith Kellogg told Margaret Brennan at the Diplomatic Relations Council on Thursday. The envoy said he personally did not know what the decision was.
Kellogg added: “That was his phone call. I’ll leave it to him to make a decision when he thinks it’s fair or when.
Diplomatic sources told CBS on Sunday there was no indication that our aid would be reconvened.
“I think we can see this impact. On the one hand, Russia has no trouble intensifying the attack. It’s not only blind, but partially blind Ukraine,” said Fiona Hill, a senior affairs in Trump’s first administration. Margaret Brennan Faces the Country. ”
“Frankly, I think that’s going to be the driving force for other allies to start strengthening their capabilities and questioning the merits they share with the United States,” Hill added. “I mean, it’s a two-street. We have to remember that other countries share very important information with the United States even if they aren’t exactly the same size.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Ukrainian officials this week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and has held the first face-to-face discussion since President Trump’s explosive Oval Office confrontation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which has sparked the approaching of the United States. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz commented in the Oval Office on Friday, proposing the expectation that he would not only discuss resumption of mineral agreements, but also attempt to get the ceasefire in place and “drive the House of Peace.” Trump’s friend and Steve Witkoff, the Middle East, respectively, announced that he would be part of the team.
Zelenskyy of Ukraine will not be at the meeting on Tuesday. He announced that he will meet with the Americans in Saudi Arabia on Monday, with the Ukrainian delegation (including main aide Andry Yermak) and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the deputy director of the presidential office Pavlo Palisa.
Ukrainian envoy Kellogg told Brennan on Thursday that the Trump administration was waiting for what he called Ukraine’s “glossary” to end the war and said it had received the Russian version. State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce said in a statement Friday that Rubio spoke with Ukrainian foreign minister about measures “all parties” to ensure sustainable peace, which would suggest concessions demanding Ukraine. It is not clear whether Russia offers anything. Kellogg said Trump had spoken about the potential of Ukraine to bring back territory from the Russians, but admitted that the U.S. president did not designate which territory.
It is not clear what triggers any pressure from the United States on Russia. Mr. Trump posted on social media that he would consider sanctions on Russia’s energy and banking, but later said in the Oval Office that Putin’s attack on Ukraine during the U.S. pause was “anyone would do it.”
“I don’t believe what he said about sanctions,” Fiona Hill said on “Facing the Country.” “I believe what he just said in the Oval Office, sitting in the back, you know, firm table.”
“He saw, obviously, he knew Ukrainians – Ukrainians, he said during the meeting with President Zelensky he saw their hind feet in the Oval Office because it failed and he basically told them they had to surrender.
Kellogg said on Thursday that the U.S. had further pressure on Moscow, especially when existing sanctions were imposed.
“I think that’s between one and ten, we probably have seven. The problem is that law enforcement is probably one third,” Kellogg said. “I think the most important thing is law enforcement sanctions, not serving our own sanctions.”
CBS News confirmed through three officials that the U.S. has suspended deadly intelligence sharing with Ukraine, including no longer providing coordinates against Ukraine’s strikes, providing us with weapons like Himars.
Private-sector company Maxar Imagery confirmed in a statement Saturday that the U.S. government has “temporarily suspended Ukrainian accounts” in its globally enhanced GEOINT delivery program, which provides access to commercial satellite images collected by U.S. intelligence companies.
The Trump administration has also stopped transferring any of the $3.85 billion designated military equipment to Ukraine. In addition, the European Command told CBS in a statement that the statement had been ordered to deliver weapons from past cargo approved by the Biden administration by January 20.
Two U.S. officials confirmed that the government is still sharing some intelligence with Ukraine to allow its troops to protect themselves from Russian attacks. Rep Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican of Pennsylvania who is a member of the intelligence committee, told “Facing the Country” Sunday that he will briefly give Trump Intel details next week.
