Trump announces arms deal with NATO for possible tariffs against Russia
During a meeting with NATO chief Mark Latte, Trump announced an arms contract to deliver aid to Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is stagnating the ceasefire. The White House has changed its mind about sending weapons to Ukraine. Major Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia have caused confusion at airports serving Moscow.
According to the Ukraine’s open source deep state website, Moscow has made Ukraine’s biggest territorial profits since the beginning of this year due to the Russian summer attacks in Ukraine, and Moscow has made Ukraine’s biggest territorial profits since the beginning of this year, and according to estimates from a think tank specializing in military issues and warfare by the Washington, DC think tank.
For the past month, Russian troops have been concentrated in the Smie region of Ukraine, where Russia in the northeastern part of Pokrovsk and Kostiantinibka eastern cities and Zaporizia in the south earned about 200 square miles. It’s a slightly larger area than Atlanta’s size.
Does that mean Russia is winning? not much. It’s not that simple. This is the latest in the Russian war in Ukraine.
Why is Russia taking its place in Ukraine?
According to Ukraine’s estimates and the deep state, Ukraine released about 7% of the territory it occupied before and after the full-scale invasion of Moscow in February 2022. It still leaves about 19% in Russia’s hands. Moscow still controls Crimea, which was annexed in 2014, with about two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region being a vast, highly industrialized region that is at the heart of the earth’s war.
Russia has long had the advantage in the war in terms of military personnel, but analysts say Moscow is suffering from more casualties, and its equipment losses – vehicles, artillery, tanks – are also at a higher rate than Ukrainian cars. Russia has made progress in recent months, but these profits are relatively slow and small, reaching less than 0.1% of Ukraine’s territory in July, according to manual calculations.
Still, one of the reasons Russia has made progress, according to the War Institute, is that Russia has significantly increased its drone attacks and missiles and shell use in Ukraine. These grew at an average monthly average of 31% in June and July. Russia uses drones to secure Ukrainian troops.
No, yes, more American weapons for Ukraine. why?
President Donald Trump began his second term with the promise to end the war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours. He quickly stopped the flow of military aid to Kiev and temporarily stopped sharing intelligence. He also took responsibility for the war in Ukraine and gave President Volodymia Zelensky a public dress in his oval office when he tried to push back the allegations and counter Trump saying that Putin wasn’t a reliable negotiator.
Since then, leaders have revised their stance and welcomed more nuances in their discussions.
The war is still raging. It appeared that Trump was changing his songs in Ukraine and Putin as Russian leaders advanced with drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and repeatedly refused Trump’s attempts to mediate a ceasefire. In early July, Trump said he would resume shipping forces to Ukraine. He also announced a new arrangement with NATO. This sees the military alliance relocate advanced US-made air defense systems to Kyiv.
He also changed his attitude about Russian leaders.
“He’s always been very kind to us,” Trump said on July 9th. “But it turned out to be pointless.”
How about diplomacy?
No two-round Trump-brokered ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia came. With Putin’s relationship with Trump becoming sour, a wide coalition of US lawmakers line up, ready to put new offensive sanctions on Russia. Trump is also threatening “severe” economic punishment against Moscow if he does not commit to a ceasefire by early September. The Kremlin dismissed this as a “bluster.”
The Russian government suggests that Trump and Putin will be able to meet in Beijing in September, when Russian leaders are there towards the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Moscow said it had not heard whether Trump was planning to attend.
The White House has not commented.
But for now, there is no doubt that Moscow is in the back geopolitical and perhaps even military.
Zelenskyy and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced on Kyiv a series of manufacturing businesses with French companies beginning drone production in Ukraine on July 21st. Overnight, Russia unveiled its latest barrage of drones and missiles in Kiev. However, Ukraine is also fighting back in ways that Moscow is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Videos published by Russian media showed people sleeping on the floor of Sheremetyevo, Russia’s busiest airport, after Ukraine attacked with drones.
