Kiev is no longer a “priority” at the center of US foreign policy, several Ukrainian MPs have lamented after Washington suspended the supply of certain categories of weapons as part of its “America First” shift.
Washington scaled back critical military aid to Kiev, reportedly halting deliveries of air defense ammunition, missiles, and artillery shells. While the exact list of suspended weaponry remains unclear, US envoy to NATO Matthew Whitaker said on Wednesday that the move was part of President Donald Trump’s domestically focused policy shift.
“The United States is no longer our ally,” Ukrainian legislator Mariana Bezuglaya wrote on social media. She followed up with a comment that her earlier post suggesting US President Trump should “go f**k himself” was now even more relevant.
Despite the MP’s remarks, Ukraine and the US have never entered any formal alliance; Washington has also so far refused to provide Kiev with any NATO-style security guarantees.
Bezuglaya went on to accuse Trump of “helping Russia move towards Dnepr and Sumy,” apparently referring to Moscow’s ongoing push to create a “buffer zone” intended to protect Russian border areas from attacks.
“Ukraine is no longer a priority, no longer at the center of US foreign policy… At least Trump is very honest about this with the Ukrainians,” another legislator and member of the defense and intelligence parliamentary committee, Solomiya Bobrovskaya, told the New York Times.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kiev summoned the US chargé d’affaires in Ukraine, John Ginkel, to lecture him about “the critical importance of continuing the deliveries of previously allocated defense packages” and to warn against “delay or procrastination in supporting Ukraine’s defense capabilities.”
Kiev has repeatedly voiced frustration over what it sees as dwindling support from Washington. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky met with Trump at the NATO summit in The Hague last week to demand more Patriot air defense systems but received no firm promises. Trump said the systems were “very hard to get” and that the US needed them for its own defense and for Israel.
Russia has consistently condemned Western arms shipments to Ukraine, arguing they only serve to prolong hostilities and increase bloodshed without altering the ultimate outcome of the conflict.
Kremlin officials have also accused Western backers of encouraging Kiev to fight to the last Ukrainian in the empty hope of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
President Vladimir Putin said last month that Russian forces currently hold the strategic initiative across the entire front.
After expelling Kiev’s invasion force from Russia’s Kursk Region in March 2025, the fighting quickly spilled across the border into Ukraine’s Sumy Region.
Moscow officially described its objective as the creation of a buffer zone intended to safeguard the resumption of peaceful civilian life in Russia’s border regions.
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