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The United States and Germany person struck a woody to supply Ukraine with weaponry to support cities from nightly Russian attacks.
Germany was prepared to wage for the systems arsenic portion of a broader US woody to merchantability Europe arms destined for Ukraine.
Details began to look connected July 10 erstwhile Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany would bargain US-made air defence systems.
“We are besides prepared to acquisition further Patriot systems from the US to marque them disposable to Ukraine,” Merz was quoted arsenic saying connected the sidelines of a Ukraine Recovery Conference successful Rome.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump told NBC News that the US would merchantability NATO US-made weapons, including the Patriots, that NATO would springiness to Ukraine.
Adding to the crescendo, US Senator Lindsey Graham told CBS connected Sunday: “In the coming days, you volition spot weapons flowing astatine a grounds level to assistance Ukraine support themselves.”
(Al Jazeera)Meanwhile, Russia continued to seizure Ukrainian villages.
On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed to person seized Zelyonaya Dolina successful the eastbound portion of Donetsk and Sobolevka successful Kharkiv successful the northeast. Nikolayevka successful Donetsk fell connected Sunday, Malinovka successful Zaporizhia connected Monday and Novokhatskoye successful Donetsk connected Wednesday.
Yet adjacent astatine this accelerated complaint of 15sq km (6sq miles) a day, Russia would request 89 years to seizure the remainder of Ukraine, The Economist mag estimated.
Russia continued to lb Ukraine’s cities with combinations of drones and missiles each nighttime implicit the past week.
The biggest onslaught came aboriginal connected Saturday. The Ukrainian aerial unit said it downed oregon electronically suppressed 577 of 597 drones launched overnight and 25 of 26 Kh-101 cruise missiles.
June besides saw the highest monthly civilian casualties successful 3 years with 232 radical killed and 1,343 injured, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission successful Ukraine said.
Trump: ‘We’re getting our wealth backmost successful full’
Trump announced connected Monday astatine the White House that helium had approved $10bn successful weapons income to Ukraine, which were to beryllium paid for by Ukraine’s European allies.
“We’ve made a woody contiguous wherever we’re going to beryllium sending them weapons and they’re going to beryllium paying for them,” helium said.
(Al Jazeera)He doubled down connected that fiscal message, telling reporters connected Tuesday that aft spending billions to assistance Ukraine, “we’re getting our wealth backmost successful full.”
Graham played connected the aforesaid theme.
“Stay tuned for a program wherever America volition statesman to merchantability to our European allies tremendous amounts of weapons that tin payment Ukraine,” helium told CBS.
Trump said helium would nonstop 17 Patriot systems to Ukraine. It was not wide if this meant 17 batteries oregon 17 launchers. “It’s everything. It’s Patriots. It’s each of them. It’s a afloat complement with the batteries,” Trump said.
A Patriot artillery usually contains six launchers, each typically carrying 4 missiles.
The particulars of the woody person remained murky and possibly deliberately so.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, who was successful Washington, DC, connected Monday, didn’t disclose details.
“But 1 happening is wide – and this is simply a connection to each different European NATO members: Everyone indispensable unfastened their wallets. It’s astir urgently raising the funds needed, particularly for aerial defence, due to the fact that Ukraine is nether tremendous pressure,” Pistorius said.
[Al Jazeera]Russia has accrued its attacks connected Ukraine’s cities since the opening of the year. In June alone, Moscow launched 330 missiles and 5,000 drones against Ukraine.
While Patriots are excessively costly to usage connected drones, they are the lone limb successful Ukraine that tin sprout down ballistic missiles and are besides effectual against cruise missiles.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful April that Ukraine needed 10 much Patriot systems to support its cities – presumably referring to implicit batteries.
Germany’s caput of defence planning, Major General Christian Freuding, said connected Saturday that Pistorius and his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, had discussed a German connection to bargain 2 Patriot systems for Ukraine. It was not wide if Pistorius’s sojourn to Washington, DC, was related to that.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters the Patriot systems were “already being shipped, … coming successful from Germany”.
Separately, Zelenskyy told Trump’s peculiar envoy to Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, erstwhile they met successful Kyiv connected Monday that Ukraine was acceptable “to acquisition American weapons, peculiarly aerial defence systems”.
Russia reacts with fury to US-German woody arsenic Trump weighs sanctions
Moscow has balked astatine the Western woody for Ukraine.
“Mr Merz is simply a fierce proponent of confrontation connected each fronts and of aggressively mobilising Europe,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said connected Friday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Germany, France and the United Kingdom were “attempting to rise Europe for war, … a nonstop warfare against Russia”.
Trump besides announced imaginable secondary sanctions connected buyers of Russian oil.
“We are very, precise unhappy with Russia – I am,” helium said Monday successful the White House portion sitting adjacent to NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. “I americium disappointed successful President [Vladimir] Putin due to the fact that I thought we would person a woody 2 months ago.”
(Al Jazeera)Trump said helium was putting Putin connected 50 days notice.
“We’re going to beryllium doing secondary tariffs if we don’t person a woody successful 50 days. It’s precise simple. And they’ll beryllium astatine 100 percent.”
The tariffs would beryllium levied connected goods the US imports from countries that bargain Russian oil, an thought Graham has aggressively pursued successful caller weeks, naming China, India and Brazil arsenic the worst offenders.
“We would similar to recognize what is down this connection astir 50 days,” Lavrov said. “Earlier, determination were besides the deadlines of 24 hours and of 100 days. We’ve seen it each and truly would similar to recognize the information of the US president.”
Lavrov was referring to Trump’s run boast that helium would extremity the warfare successful Ukraine successful a time and Kellogg’s self-imposed 100-day extremity to bring astir a ceasefire.
Some observers are sceptical astir whether Trump volition get pugnacious connected Putin, whom helium has openly admired.
Dmitry Medvedev, the lawman president of Russia’s Security Council, shrugged disconnected Trump’s remarks.
“Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The satellite shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care,” helium wrote connected societal media.
But Peskov connected Tuesday called Trump’s remarks “very serious”, adding: “Something successful them concerns President Putin personally.”
On Wednesday, the usually restrained Peskov sounded adjacent much alarmed that Europe was present consenting to ft the measure for the warfare without US assistance.
“What we are observing truthful acold is that the Europeans are displaying a wholly assertive militarist stance, declaring their volition to walk tremendous funds to acquisition weapons, to further provoke the continuation of war,” Peskov said.
“Of course, it is precise hard to foretell thing amid specified an affectional state, bordering connected irrationality, which reigns connected the European continent,” helium added.
The lone happening that assuaged Russian concerns was indecision implicit sending Ukraine Germany’s Taurus missiles, which tin onslaught heavy wrong Russia with ample warheads.
That quality suggested that Europeans “still person immoderate consciousness of crushed left”, Peskov said connected Wednesday.
European defence and reconstruction without the US
Europe’s willingness to walk connected defence whitethorn besides person brought distant the dawn of much independency from the US.
Last week, the UK and France announced a scaling-up of their Combined Joint Force to a corps level, a reorientation of that unit from overseas expeditions, “refocusing it connected defending Europe” and upgrading it “to war-fighting readiness”.
They announced caller procurement of Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles and associated probe connected a procreation of missiles that would “harness the powerfulness of AI”.
They besides issued the Northwood Declaration connected person atomic coordination. “Any adversary threatening the captious interests of Britain oregon France could beryllium confronted by the spot of the atomic forces of some nations,” the UK Ministry of Defence said.
France and Britain are the lone European states with a atomic deterrent.
The US Senate Armed Services Committee, meanwhile, approved $500m successful information assistance for Ukraine arsenic portion of its draught connection for the adjacent fiscal twelvemonth – the lone subject assistance announced nether the Trump administration.
Under erstwhile President Joe Biden, the US spent $64.6bn connected subject assistance to Ukraine, according to a tracker tally by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Biden besides near $4bn unspent successful the signifier of a statesmanlike authorization to gully down weapons from US stockpiles and nonstop them to Ukraine. Trump has not exercised that authority, insisting that the US needs to beryllium paid back.
As Trump touted $10bn successful weapons sales, the European Commission announced 10 cardinal euros ($11.6bn) successful investments successful Ukraine, leveraged done 2.3 cardinal euros ($2.7bn) successful loans and grants from European institutions.
The announcement came astatine the Ukraine Recovery Conference.
The wealth is for rebuilding captious infrastructure and networks and helping tiny businesses.
“We request a Marshall Plan-style approach,” Zelenskyy declared upon accomplishment successful Rome, referring to the post-World War II strategy of grants from the US that rebuilt the European economy.
Women beryllium astatine a autobus halt damaged during Russian drone and rocket strikes successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected July 10, 2025 [Alina Smutko/Reuters]
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