Statement on Suspension of Assistance to Ukraine

The American Ukraine PAC is dismayed by the decision of the Trump Administration suspend assistance to Ukraine.

Despite America starting negotiations to end the war with Russia, Putin has continued an aggressive policy of bombing civilians in Ukraine, including Churches and schools. In fact, the rate of bombing has increased since the start of the “peace process” by the Trump Administration.

Suspending military assistance works against the stated goal of bringing peace to the region. In fact, it increases the change for more deaths and more fighting.

The road to peace is to stop the bombing of civilians by the Russian Army.

The American Ukraine PAC asks President Trump to push Putin to stop killing civilians and to return the 19,546 Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped and trafficked to Russia.

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NY Times: This is Europe’s War Now: Strong analysis by Dmytro Kuleba, former Foreign Minister of Ukraine

Europeans understand, as the Trump administration appears not to, that Ukraine wants a peace deal — it just doesn’t want to end up destroyed by the peace terms. The obsession of Mr. Putin is all of Ukraine, nothing less. It is neither NATO nor a strip of Ukrainian land. If Ukraine is still independent and armed by the end of negotiations, Mr. Putin will not see that as the end. He will settle for a piece of Ukraine today only to come for the whole tomorrow.

Mr. Trump has made a cease-fire in Ukraine too central to his foreign policy to not succeed. He cannot fail to make a deal and he certainly cannot allow Ukraine to become what Afghanistan was to President Joe Biden, a foreign policy disaster that defined the rest of his presidency. Trapped by his own ambition, Mr. Trump craves fast success — hence last week’s attack on Mr. Zelensky, whose insistence on terms Ukraine can live with seems to stand in the way of it.