The US has stopped selling weapons to Ukraine, the secretary of Ukraine's parliamentary committee on national security defense and intelligence, Roman Kostenko, has said.
Kostenko made the remarks while discussing possible alternatives for acquiring arms from Washington. One of the possible alternatives was to buy weapons in the US with money provided by the EU, but this scheme is already not working despite Kiev's readiness to send payment for pre-agreed shipments.
"Europe is helping us with money to buy arms. The arms, the sale of which, according to the information I have, stopped. Companies that have been ready to transfer weapons as soon as the next day are now awaiting permission because they do not have one. Everyone is waiting for the permission to get those weapons here, even if for money," Kostenko said on Thursday.
On the same day, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz refrained from confirming whether the United States has halted its security assistance to Ukraine but acknowledged that a significant portion of US military reserves is becoming increasingly exhausted.
On Wednesday, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky accused US President Donald Trump of living in a "Russian disinformation space," and said he would "like to have more truth with the Trump team."
Later in the day, Trump responded to the accusations with an angry Truth Social post, where he described Zelensky as a "modestly successful comedian" and a "dictator without elections," who talked the US into spending billions of dollars "to go into a war that could not be won."
US Vice President JD Vance warned that "badmouthing" Trump would only have negative consequences for Ukraine and stressed that Zelensky’s "media tour around Europe badmouthing the president of the United States is 'insulting and stupid'."
"The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president's mind by badmouthing him in public media ... everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration," the vice president told a Western media outlet.
According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump is very upset with Zelensky, and rightfully so.
"Zelensky, instead of saying thank you for all US help, is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or what he's not getting," Rubio said on Friday.