He added that continued assistance to Kyiv “must not rely on significant U.S. contributions,” urging allies to step up funding and production instead.
Under Donald Trump, new U.S. military aid to Ukraine has fallen to almost nothing. However, Washington is willing to sell weapons to Kyiv financed by other allies under the NATO-led Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List program, which gathered €3.7 billion last year for arms purchases.
U.S. military help to Ukraine fell by 99 percent in 2025, said the Kiel Support Tracker which monitors aid to Kyiv. “At the same time, Europe sharply increased its aid allocations, by 59 percent for financial and humanitarian aid and by 67 percent for military aid compared to the 2022–24 average. As a result, total aid in 2025 remained close to previous years,” it said.
This week, Vice President JD Vance said he was proud of the U.S. halting military aid to Ukraine.
“It’s one of the things I’m proudest that we’ve done in this administration is we’ve told Europe that if you want to buy weapons, you can, but the United States is not buying weapons and sending them to Ukraine anymore,” he said at a Turning Point USA event.
Despite switching to selling weapons, the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf are also under strain thanks to the war against Iran launched by Trump and Israel, with calls to focus on rebuilding stocks of air defense missiles that Kyiv also wants.