Overview
- Trump announced that the U.S. will send Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine under a new EU and NATO reimbursement arrangement.
- The decision reverses a Pentagon-enforced pause on defensive arms shipments that Trump ordered earlier this month.
- He will meet NATO secretary general Mark Rutte in Washington to finalize details of overseas weapons transfers for Kyiv.
- A bipartisan Senate package led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal is moving forward to grant Trump authority to impose up to 500% tariffs on nations backing Russia’s war economy.
- Trump condemned Vladimir Putin for broken ceasefire promises and ongoing nightly strikes on Ukraine while hinting at fresh sanctions in an imminent address.