Nessun calo negli aiuti militari a Kiev dopo il cambiamento della politica statunitense, afferma un funzionario della NATO

WIESBADEN, Germany, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Arms supplies to Ukraine have not dropped following a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to stop direct donations to [Ukraine](https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-russia-war/), a senior NATO military official said.

After coming to office in January, the Trump administration only sold weapons or shipped donations to Ukraine that had already been authorized by former President Joe Biden, who was a staunch supporter of Kyiv.

Then from the autumn, under a mechanism developed by the U.S. and its allies, called the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, Ukraine has been supplied with weapons from U.S. stocks using funds from NATO countries.

Asked if there had been a drop in military supplies since Trump stopped donations, Major General Maik Keller, deputy commander of NATO’s Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU), said: “No, nothing.”

“There was no pause… it was just continuing and it’s not that the U.S. exactly waits until it is paid for. As soon as one (PURL) package is announced, the flow of material is starting,” he told Reuters.

“We found a lot of European nations actually contributing to the funding.”

It hasn’t dropped. Europeans are simply the ones paying for it now.
The US betrayed its allies, and Europe should respond accordingly: stop subsidizing American defense companies and invest in its own military production. They demanded higher defense spending? Fine. Europe will increase it, but not a single kopeck should go to the US.

Let the American factory workers who voted for Trump get their paychecks from their own government, not from Europe.

Ukraine is in Europe  not the USA. This is EUs backyard. USA suck at being world’s policemen.