The aid was en route to Ukraine last week when US defense officials abruptly stopped delivery — without first consulting the White House.
The US has resumed sending military aid to Ukraine after President Trump reversed a decision by the Pentagon to stop shipments of weapons the war-torn country needs to defend against Russia’s intense aerial assaults, according to US and Ukrainian officials.
The restarted aid was en route to Ukraine last week when US defense officials abruptly stopped delivery — without first consulting the White House.
Some of the aid had already made it as far as Poland.
The packages include precision-guided rockets known as Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS), which are used in Patriot air-defense systems to shoot Russian missiles out of the sky.
Also included are 155mm munitions for howitzers, which Ukraine uses to defend its territory against invading Russian ground forces.
Trump has spoken in recent weeks about wanting to boost Ukraine’s Patriot supply, telling a Ukrainian journalist in a heartwarming exchange at The Hague late last month that he was “going to see if we can make some available.
