America and Germany have struck a deal to supply Ukraine with weaponry to guard cities from nightly Russian assaults.
Germany was ready to pay for the programs as a part of a broader US deal to promote Europe arms destined for Ukraine.
Particulars started to emerge on July 10 when Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated Germany would purchase US-made air defence programs.
“We’re additionally ready to buy extra Patriot programs from the US to make them accessible to Ukraine,” Merz was quoted as saying on the sidelines of a Ukraine Restoration Convention in Rome.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump advised NBC Information that the US would promote NATO US-made weapons, together with the Patriots, that NATO would give to Ukraine.
Including to the crescendo, US Senator Lindsey Graham advised CBS on Sunday: “Within the coming days, you will notice weapons flowing at a file degree to assist Ukraine defend themselves.”
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In the meantime, Russia continued to seize Ukrainian villages.
On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed to have seized Zelyonaya Dolina within the jap area of Donetsk and Sobolevka in Kharkiv within the northeast. Nikolayevka in Donetsk fell on Sunday, Malinovka in Zaporizhia on Monday and Novokhatskoye in Donetsk on Wednesday.
But even at this accelerated price of 15sq km (6sq miles) a day, Russia would wish 89 years to seize the remainder of Ukraine, The Economist journal estimated.
Russia continued to pound Ukraine’s cities with combos of drones and missiles each evening over the previous week.
The largest assault got here early on Saturday. The Ukrainian air pressure stated it downed or electronically suppressed 577 of 597 drones launched in a single day and 25 of 26 Kh-101 cruise missiles.
June additionally noticed the best month-to-month civilian casualties in three years with 232 folks killed and 1,343 injured, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine stated.
Trump: ‘We’re getting our a refund in full’
Trump introduced on Monday on the White Home that he had accredited $10bn in weapons gross sales to Ukraine, which have been to be paid for by Ukraine’s European allies.
“We’ve made a deal at the moment the place we’re going to be sending them weapons they usually’re going to be paying for them,” he stated.
(Al Jazeera)
He doubled down on that monetary message, telling reporters on Tuesday that after spending billions to assist Ukraine, “we’re getting our a refund in full.”
Graham performed on the identical theme.
“Keep tuned for a plan the place America will start to promote to our European allies super quantities of weapons that may profit Ukraine,” he advised CBS.
Trump stated he would ship 17 Patriot programs to Ukraine. It was not clear if this meant 17 batteries or 17 launchers. “It’s the whole lot. It’s Patriots. It’s all of them. It’s a full complement with the batteries,” Trump stated.
A Patriot battery normally incorporates six launchers, every sometimes carrying 4 missiles.
The particulars of the deal have remained murky and maybe intentionally so.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, who was in Washington, DC, on Monday, didn’t disclose particulars.
“However one factor is evident – and it is a message to all different European NATO members: Everybody should open their wallets. It’s about urgently elevating the funds wanted, particularly for air defence, as a result of Ukraine is beneath huge stress,” Pistorius stated.
(Al Jazeera)
Russia has elevated its assaults on Ukraine’s cities because the starting of the yr. In June alone, Moscow launched 330 missiles and 5,000 drones in opposition to Ukraine.
Whereas Patriots are too costly to make use of on drones, they’re the one weapon in Ukraine that may shoot down ballistic missiles and are additionally efficient in opposition to cruise missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in April that Ukraine wanted 10 extra Patriot programs to guard its cities – presumably referring to finish batteries.
Germany’s head of defence planning, Main Normal Christian Freuding, stated on Saturday that Pistorius and his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, had mentioned a German provide to purchase two Patriot programs for Ukraine. It was not clear if Pistorius’s go to to Washington, DC, was associated to that.
On Tuesday, Trump advised reporters the Patriot programs have been “already being shipped, … coming in from Germany”.
Individually, Zelenskyy advised Trump’s particular envoy to Ukraine, Normal Keith Kellogg, after they met in Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine was prepared “to buy American weapons, notably air defence programs”.
Russia reacts with fury to US-German deal as Trump weighs sanctions
Moscow has balked on the Western deal for Ukraine.
“Mr Merz is a fierce proponent of confrontation on all fronts and of aggressively mobilising Europe,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Friday.
Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov stated Germany, France and the UK have been “making an attempt to boost Europe for battle, … a direct battle in opposition to Russia”.
Trump additionally introduced doable secondary sanctions on consumers of Russian oil.
“We’re very, very sad with Russia – I’m,” he stated Monday within the White Home whereas sitting subsequent to NATO Secretary-Normal Mark Rutte. “I’m upset in President (Vladimir) Putin as a result of I believed we’d have a deal two months in the past.”
(Al Jazeera)
Trump stated he was placing Putin on 50 days discover.
“We’re going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days. It’s quite simple. They usually’ll be at 100%.”
The tariffs can be levied on items the US imports from international locations that purchase Russian oil, an thought Graham has aggressively pursued in current weeks, naming China, India and Brazil because the worst offenders.
“We want to perceive what’s behind this assertion about 50 days,” Lavrov stated. “Earlier, there have been additionally the deadlines of 24 hours and of 100 days. We’ve seen all of it and actually want to perceive the motivation of the US president.”
Lavrov was referring to Trump’s marketing campaign boast that he would finish the battle in Ukraine in a day and Kellogg’s self-imposed 100-day objective to carry a few ceasefire.
Some observers are sceptical about whether or not Trump will get robust on Putin, whom he has brazenly admired.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Safety Council, shrugged off Trump’s remarks.
“Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, anticipating the results. Belligerent Europe was upset. Russia didn’t care,” he wrote on social media.
However Peskov on Tuesday known as Trump’s remarks “very severe”, including: “One thing in them issues President Putin personally.”
On Wednesday, the usually restrained Peskov sounded much more alarmed that Europe was now prepared to foot the invoice for the battle with out US help.
“What we’re observing to this point is that the Europeans are displaying a totally aggressive militarist stance, declaring their intention to spend huge funds to buy weapons, to additional provoke the continuation of battle,” Peskov stated.
“After all, it is rather exhausting to foretell something amid such an emotional state, bordering on irrationality, which reigns on the European continent,” he added.
The one factor that assuaged Russian issues was indecision over sending Ukraine Germany’s Taurus missiles, which might strike deep inside Russia with giant warheads.
That information urged that Europeans “nonetheless have some sense of cause left”, Peskov stated on Wednesday.
European defence and reconstruction with out the US
Europe’s willingness to spend on defence might also have introduced forth the daybreak of extra independence from the US.
Final week, the UK and France introduced a scaling-up of their Mixed Joint Power to a corps degree, a reorientation of that pressure from abroad expeditions, “refocusing it on defending Europe” and upgrading it “to war-fighting readiness”.
They introduced new procurement of Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles and joint analysis on a technology of missiles that will “harness the ability of AI”.
Additionally they issued the Northwood Declaration on nearer nuclear coordination. “Any adversary threatening the very important pursuits of Britain or France might be confronted by the energy of the nuclear forces of each nations,” the UK Ministry of Defence stated.
France and Britain are the one European states with a nuclear deterrent.
The US Senate Armed Providers Committee, in the meantime, accredited $500m in safety help for Ukraine as a part of its draft language for the subsequent fiscal yr – the one army assist introduced beneath the Trump administration.
Beneath former President Joe Biden, the US spent $64.6bn on army assist to Ukraine, based on a tracker run by the Kiel Institute for the World Economic system.
Biden additionally left $4bn unspent within the type of a presidential authority to attract down weapons from US stockpiles and ship them to Ukraine. Trump has not exercised that authority, insisting that the US must be paid again.
As Trump touted $10bn in weapons gross sales, the European Fee introduced 10 billion euros ($11.6bn) in investments in Ukraine, leveraged by 2.3 billion euros ($2.7bn) in loans and grants from European establishments.
The announcement got here on the Ukraine Restoration Convention.
The cash is for rebuilding crucial infrastructure and networks and serving to small companies.
“We’d like a Marshall Plan-style strategy,” Zelenskyy declared upon arrival in Rome, referring to the post-World Conflict II system of grants from the US that rebuilt the European financial system.
Girls sit at a bus cease broken throughout Russian drone and missile strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 10, 2025 (Alina Smutko/Reuters)
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