Trump speaks with Putin after U.S. pauses some weapons shipments to Ukraine

President Donald Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Thursday for astir an hour, according to a Kremlin authoritative translated by NBC News.

Part of the speech was astir Ukraine, the authoritative said. Two days earlier, the U.S. said it would halt immoderate rocket and ammunitions shipments to the country, which continues to combat disconnected invading Russian forces.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the intermission weeks aft ordering a reappraisal of America's munitions stockpile, sources told NBC News.

Trump "raised the contented of an contiguous ceasefire" betwixt Russia and Ukraine, the Russian authoritative said connected a telephone with reporters.

Putin said helium was focused alternatively connected a "political solution to the struggle done negotiations."

The Russian president besides said his state "will prosecute its stated objectives" successful Ukraine, according to the official.

"Namely, to destruct the well-known basal causes that led to the existent concern and the crisp confrontation. Russia volition not wantonness those goals," the authoritative said.

The U.S. determination this week to intermission the Ukraine shipments fueled concerns from those skeptical of Trump's committedness to providing U.S. assistance to Ukraine successful the 4th twelvemonth of its warfare with Russia.

"Ukraine has ne'er asked America to nonstop successful the 82nd airborne; they've asked for the weapons to support their homeland and radical from Russia attacks," said Mike Pompeo, who served arsenic caput of State during Trump's archetypal statesmanlike term, successful an X station Wednesday.

"Letting Russia triumph this warfare would beryllium a unmitigated catastrophe for the American radical and our information astir the world," Pompeo wrote.

On Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the section "continues to supply the President with robust options respect regarding subject assistance to Ukraine, accordant with his extremity of bringing this tragic warfare to an end."

At the aforesaid time, helium said, the Pentagon is "rigorously examining and adapting its attack towards achieving this nonsubjective portion besides preserving U.S. subject readiness and defence priorities that enactment the president's America archetypal agenda," Parnell said.

"This capableness review, and that's precisely what it is, going forward, we spot this arsenic a communal consciousness pragmatic measurement towards having a model to measure what munitions are sent and where," helium said.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Washington and Kyiv are "clarifying each the details of defence support, including aerial defense."

"One mode oregon another, we indispensable guarantee extortion for our people," Zelenskyy said.

The intermission comes arsenic Russia has ramped up its attacks each astir Ukraine. Kyiv's overseas affairs minister, Andrii Sybiha, said Russia launched much than 5,000 combat drones and hundreds of missiles, including astir 80 ballistic missiles, successful June alone.

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it stressed to a U.S. authoritative connected Wednesday that "any hold oregon slowing down successful supporting Ukraine's defence capabilities would lone promote the aggressor to proceed warfare and terror, alternatively than question peace."