Biden prepares US$725 million military assistance package for Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

It is my belief that Trump has made considerable contributions to world peace, and that he can make more in the future."

Writing for the Kyiv Independent, the member of parliament in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's party said

It would be difficult for the Trump administration to then rein the Ukrainians in and withdraw the green light because this would obviously be perceived very poorly by Kyiv, ... The Trump administration would have preferred Biden not to give the Ukrainians this green light because it complicates upcoming negotiations more than it helps."

he said, adding

It's way too little, years late. It's been a truism that Ukraine has needed the capability to strike the Russian rear for many years at this point."

George Barros, a Russia analyst at the US-based Insitute for the Study of War, told BI

It feels like everything that we've been getting has been either too late or it's just enough to barely hold on."

One American fighting in Ukraine told BI

Had Ukraine been able to destroy several squadrons of Su-34 and Su-35 fighters early in the year, then Russia would have significantly less capacity to employ glide bombs against Ukrainian positions and civilians,

he said

Putin is not entitled to a veto over US or NATO policy on the basis that he can threaten us."

He said

Michael Kofmanmilitary analyst

The Trump administration's first order of business will be to decide what to do with remaining equipment and how best to pursue the next supplemental request to Congress,

Kofman said

I would say it's impossible,

a congressional official told the Journal

We are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of easy stuff to send off the shelf,

the senior defense official said

Ted Cruzsenator

During the entire course of this war, Joe Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris haven't signed off on either of these steps until right now,

Cruz said

Ted Cruzsenator

And this Biden White House, they don't want either of those outcomes to happen,

Cruz said

Vladimir Putinrussian President

This will mean that NATO countries, the U.S. and European states, are fighting with Russia,

Putin said in September, ... per the BBC

As President Trump has said on the campaign trail, he is the only person who can bring both sides together in order to negotiate peace, and work towards ending the war and stopping the killing."

When previously contacted for comment, the Trump transition team pointed Newsweek to the following statement from Communications Director Steven Cheung

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

But strikes are not carried out with words. These things are not announced. The missiles will speak for themselves,

Zelensky said in a November 17 statement