Trump pulls the plug on military aid - can Ukraine survive?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Trump has ordered a “pause“ on all US military aid to Ukraine. All the pending military assistance Biden signed off before leaving office is now in a holding pattern until Trump gets his apology/ submission/ minerals deal from Zelenskyy. How long can Ukraine go on fighting now? Will the EU find the money to plug the gap? And is Trump remotely interested in peace?
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| 0:14.6 | I haven't seen reports of the US withdrawing support for Ukraine, and as I understand, that is not their position. |
| 0:22.6 | That was the Prime Minister, Kirstama, speaking in the House of Commons at around 3 o'clock London time on Monday. |
| 0:30.6 | Less than 12 hours later from Washington, this happened. |
| 0:36.6 | We have some breaking news. CBS News has confirmed the Trump administration is pausing all |
| 0:41.5 | military aid to Ukraine. About a third of the total military supplies to Ukraine comes from |
| 0:48.5 | the U.S. What on earth is this going to do to Zelensky's efforts to win the war against Russia? |
| 0:55.7 | Is it all over? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:01.7 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:03.4 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:04.7 | It's Lewis. And given the news from Washington overnight, it becomes ever harder to believe |
| 1:10.4 | that what is unfolding now is |
| 1:13.4 | Kirstama and Europe playing soft cop and Donald Trump and J.D. Vance playing hard cop to Volodymere |
| 1:23.2 | Zelensky. What's happening is that Europe and America seem to be going in two completely |
| 1:31.4 | opposite directions, with America determinedly trying to undermine the European effort at putting |
| 1:41.2 | in some kind of peacekeepers into Ukraine with a US backstop of air support |
| 1:47.8 | or whatever else to try to make that work. It just looks like America is not interested in that. |
| 1:54.6 | It is much more interested in a deal that makes Vladimir Putin happy. Yeah. So just to bring you up to date with what we know, Kirstama sounding so optimistic |
| 2:04.2 | on Sunday night and well into Monday where he genuinely thought that there was something |
| 2:09.1 | that he, along with European leaders, were doing to get the Trump administration on board |
| 2:15.5 | to back Zelensky for a peace deal for Ukraine. |
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