Trump's Ukraine Aid Freeze Raises The Stakes For Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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"Ukraine will not collapse — they already experienced an aid cutoff last year, but the effect will be cumulative," an analyst said.
The Trump administration on Monday announced it is suspending U.S. aid to Ukraine in an effort to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into a negotiation with the U.S. on ending the war — a long-standing demand of Donald Trump.
The move, which seemed to confirm Kyiv backers’ worst fears after Trump’s November victory, comes just days after the U.S. president clashed with his Ukrainian counterpart in the Oval Office.
“The problem is I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy and I don’t think you’d be a tough guy without the United States,” Trump told Zelenskyy on Friday. “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out. And if we’re out you’ll fight it out. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty.”
Zelenskyy has since acknowledged that his White House visit “did not go the way it was supposed to,” adding that he is prepared to work with Trump to “bring lasting peace” to his country.
America has been Ukraine’s single biggest aid contributor since the war started, raising profound questions about what the absence of U.S. aid would mean for the country’s ability to defend itself on the battlefield.
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