
A senior White House official said Wednesday that the president had now agreed to some Ukrainian requests for military aid based on a detailed list that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky handed him last month when they met in The Hague.
On Capitol Hill, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said Wednesday that they will try to pass legislation this month that would give Trump the ability to impose sanctions on buyers of Russia’s energy exports.
“We’re looking at Ukraine right now and munitions,” Trump told reporters Wednesday ahead of a White House lunch with African leaders.
The vow came a day after Trump expressed uncharacteristically tough public anger toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring that the leader throws a “lot of bulls—.”
“He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless,” Trump said at a Cabinet meeting.
Trump and Putin spoke by phone Thursday. Afterward, Trump’s rhetoric toward the Russian leader sharpened significantly.
Slava Ukraine!
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