'This is a catastrophe': Ukraine reacts to US military aid pause

Ukrainians person voiced their daze and dismay astatine the US pausing its subject assistance to the state - what 1 person called a "dangerous" situation.

"We'll spot precise soon the superior consequences - unsafe consequences," Oleksandr Merezhko, who chairs the Ukrainian parliament's overseas affairs committee, told BBC Breakfast connected Tuesday.

Merezhko said the intermission could commencement having an interaction connected the crushed arsenic soon arsenic "in the coming days".

Ukraine woke up to the quality connected Tuesday that the US was "pausing and reviewing" its subject aid. A White House authoritative told the BBC's US quality spouse CBS that its crushed for doing truthful was to "ensure that it is contributing to a solution".

"The President has been wide that helium is focused connected peace. We request our partners to beryllium committed to that extremity arsenic well," the White House authoritative added.

While US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky person yet to comment, immoderate Ukrainian MPs person travel retired to telephone the determination "disastrous".

"When we are successful hopeless request of American weaponry, of American support... [it] looks similar siding with Russia" to extremity it now, Merezhko said.

"I'm appealing to Mr Trump not to play with these unsafe issues due to the fact that we're talking astir lives."

Merezhko said the determination besides shines "a caller light" on the Oval Office spat connected Friday betwixt Zelensky and the US president and vice-president, which Merezhko called "an effort to find justification" to halt the subject aid.

"It was a show, you know, deliberately played," helium added.

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Close to Ukraine's occidental borderline with Poland, determination are frequent, police-escorted convoys of subject assistance which crawl their mode to the frontlines - a lifeline of armour and ammunition for exhausted troops.

For Kyiv, the intermission amounts to the blocking of a large lifeline. The past clip this happened - due to the fact that of governmental disagreements successful the US Congress - Zelensky said Ukraine straight mislaid lives and onshore arsenic a result.

One Ukrainian advocacy radical said Trump was "hanging Ukrainians retired to adust and giving Russia the greenish airy to support marching west."

Questions besides stay unanswered implicit whether Ukraine volition inactive person ammunition for American weapons already delivered, oregon whether Washington volition proceed to stock quality with Kyiv.

Ukrainian MP Volodymyr Aryev called the intermission a "very achy blow". MP Oleksiy Honcharenko said it was a "catastrophe" they saw coming, but argued that "not each is lost".

Ukrainian blogger and activistic Yuri Kasyanov said: "Roosevelt and Churchill are turning successful their graves. America has sided with the planetary evil."

Another blogger, Leonid Shvets, responded sarcastically: "Thank you America! You person gone mad."

Reactions from Ukraine's European allies person besides started coming in.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is yet to straight respond to the pause, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was "a substance for the US... we are focused connected supporting Ukraine, bringing the US astir the table".

She said Sir Keir would not "conduct dialog connected unfastened airwaves", adding that the UK authorities had ramped up its enactment for Ukraine successful caller days and is committed to peace, similar she believes the US is.

France's Europe minister, Benjamin Haddad, was much guardant connected the issue.

Speaking connected French TV, helium said the intermission made bid a much distant idea, "because it would lone fortify the manus of the aggressor connected the crushed - Russia."