Ukraine is receiving more help in his war with Russia.
An Israel -based patriotic air defense system will be sent to Ukraine after it is restored, four current and previous officials said in recent days, and Western allies are discussing Germany’s logistics or giving another.
The officials talk about the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of discussions, they refused to describe Mr. Trump’s vision of the decision to transfer more patriotic systems to Ukraine.
The White House National Security Council does not provide details about the strength and placement of defense systems, said James Hewitt, spokesman for the Council. “President Trump has been clear: Hello, the war in Ukraine to finish and the murder to stop,” he said.
A former White House official said the Biden Administration had assured the agreement with Israel in September, before the elections won by Trump. The Department of Defense said in a statement that “it continues to provide equipment to UCRINE of the previously authorized packages,” referring to the armament extracted from existing inventories and new purchases.
The delivery, which has not previously informed, occurs when Russia has intensified its attacks against Ukraine, including a missile strike on April 24 against kyiv that was the deadliest since last summer.
A year ago, the allies fought to respond to Mr. Zensky’s demand for seven patriotic systems. Althheheh Ukraine now has eight, only six are working. The other two are being restored, said one of the US officials. With that of Israel, and one from Germany or Greece, Ukraine would have 10 patriotic systems in total, largely to protect the capital, kyiv.
As Russia has intensified recent attacks, Trump’s recent public comments on war have softened in favor of Ukraine.
Trump had a good meeting with Mr. Zensky at Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome last weekend, after a disastrous in February at the Oval office. He has reduced his negative rhetoric about Mr. Zensky and questioned whether Russia takes peace conversations seriously. On Wednesday a delayed mineral agreement was signed with Ukraine, raiding the way for greater US military aid.
On Saturday, Mr. Zensky told kyiv journalists that the mineral agreement means that the United States would send more air defense systems.
According to the US export rules. For sensitive defense equipment, the United States must approve any transfer of American manufacturing patriot missile systems to Ukraine, even if they come through other countries. The systems are scarce, and their deployment is from a world hot spot game, discover which global crisis requires that more defend the American troops, bases and allies.
Trump has made the end of the war a characteristic objective of American foreign policy, but at the same time, he has turned that policy about his head. I only thought that Russia began the war, Trump has often expressed his admiration for its president, Vladimir V. Putin, and adopted some Russian conversation points, such as saying that Ukraine should not be able to join NATO and that Ukraine invades.
Since the beginning of the war, Mr. Zensky has repeatedly asked for more patriotic systems, saying they were essential to defend his country. Each patriotic air surface system consists of a battery with a powerful radar system and mobile pitchers that shoot missiles to intercept incoming projectiles.
The United States first sent a patriot system to Ukraine in April 2023. In January 2024, there was already missile shortage.
On Friday, Colonel Yurii Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukraine Air Force, said it was no secret that Ukraine needed more aerial defenses. “We are really waiting for” the supplies, he said.
Since assuming the position, Trump has publicly eliminated Mr. Zensky’s requests for more patriots, that Mr. Zensky has recently sacrificed to buy. When asked about Mr. Zensky’s request to buy Patriots almost three weeks ago, Trump said the Ukrainian leader “was always looking to buy missiles.”
But Russia has increased its attacks against Ukrainian cities, including an explosive drone attack against kyiv on Sunday that wounded 11 people, since the United States began promoting peace conversations in February.
On April 24, a Russian ballistic missile killed 13 people and wounded almost 90 another 90 in kyiv. In a rare rebuke or Mr. Putin, Trump wrote on social networks: “Vladimir, stop!” Hey later said there was no reason for Mr. Putin to shoot missiles in civil areas. “It makes me think that maybe I don’t want to stop war, it’s just hitting me.”
The Starly attack illustrates how Russia can be too much of patriotic systems, or sending a flood of drones and missiles almost simultaneously. Almost 70 missiles, including ballistic, and about 150 attack drones attacked cities in Ukraine that night, Althehegh kyiv was the hardest.
Ukraine lacked aerial defenses to tear down those missiles and drones, said Ihor Klymenko, the country’s internal affairs minister.
The next night, Mr. Zensky renewed his sacrifice to buy Patriots. “We are ready to buy the necessary number of patriotic systems for our country,” he said in his night speech. “It’s not about charity.”
On April 26, Mr. Zensky and Mr. Trump outside the Pope’s funeral in the city of the Vatican, which leads to the apparent restart of his relationship after the Oval Office meeting in February. Both Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance rebuked the Ukrainian President at that meeting, saying that he had not expressed enough gratitude for US aid.
After the Pope’s funeral, Zensky said he and Trump had talked about an agreement to share the profits of the extraction of the natural resources of Ukraine. Later, Trump said Zensky asked for patriotic missiles.
“He told me that he needs more weapons,” Trump told reporters. “It’s a leg saying that for three years.” But then, he added: “Look, hey to do something good for his country.”
On Wednesday, the United States and Ukraine signed the Mineral Agreement. Although it does not explicitly mention the security guarantees for Ukraine, it guarantees the possibility of sending US weapons to Ukraine if a peace agreement with Russia is not reached.
While Ukraine still receives authorized weapons under Mr. Biden, these supplies are expected to end this summer.
Patriot systems cost at least $ 1 billion to build and around 90 troops to run.
The data compiled by weapons trackers at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London suggest that 186 patriotic systems are in operation worldwide. The United States has approximately third of them and has sent many abroad to protect allies in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Several Patriots boxes have been sent to the Indo-Pacific Becoaus region from China and North Korea, although the United States recently moved at least one to the Middle East to safeguard Israel.
European allies have about 40 systems, including the eight now in Ukraine.
The ninth patriot that comes from Israel and the review of Ukraine is an earlier model, according to two of the US officials. It is expected to be delivered to Ukraine for this summer. Germany and Greece together have about 15 patriot systems, according to the data of the International Institute.
Kateryna Stepanenko, an analyst at Russia at the War Institute for the Study, an organization based in Washington, said the increase in Russian attacks probably partly searched to exhaust some of the Air Defenses and Ukraine defenses.
“Part of this is a psychological and political campaign that Kremlin is moving, in which they are trying to scare Ukrainian people to an essential capitulation of acceptance, when the realities of the battlefield for Russia are far from the real gain of Russia,” said Mrs. Stepanenko in an interview.
Andrew E. Kramer Reports contributed by Kyiv, Ukraine.
