This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague John Hardy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

about the report that the U.S. arsenal paused in sending weaponry and ammunition to Ukraine,

and also that the U.S. withheld or did not pass on intelligence gathering, surveillance, satellite information.

John assesses both the arsenal and the intelligence paused, but now restarted, we're told.

The significance on the battlefield. John Hardy, much more of this tonight.

Right. So I think for material, the pause was too short-lived to have really, really any

impact at all. I think Ukrainians, given the general risk of another shut off, but maybe

rationing munitions, but the pause itself, I don't think, had much impact.

For intelligence, you know,

obviously there, a cutoff has immediate effect, but again, because it was so short-lived,

I don't think those effects really accumulated into anything significant. Some folks have claims that

the pause contributed to Ukraine's withdraw and Kursk. I don't think that's true. I think the

Ukraine is withdrew from Kursk for the reasons we discussed earlier, namely the difficult

logistics and situation. But, you know, obviously it's great to see that the pause is now

over. The arms and intelligence is intelligence is again flowing to Ukraine.

I think that's very important as Ukraine tries to put itself in the best position possible for negotiations with Russia.