Sitting in the Oval Office with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and apparently fed up with being slow-walked by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump threatened the Kremlin with tough tariffs if it doesn't make a deal to end the war within 50 days. But perhaps more important was Trump's shift on weapons.

Donald Trump has credited his wife Melania for his recent decision to send weapons to Ukraine, a position he had previously opposed.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government.

In December 2022, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. agreed to give Ukraine a Patriot missile battery, an advanced ground-based air-defense system. Two more followed, along with an unknown number of interceptor missiles that have provided the only effective means of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles.

President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons, and sell them American replacements.

When NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the White House on Monday, he was greeted not only by President Donald Trump but also by the striking sight of a fully gilded Oval Office.

The Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Europe are working with NATO members to ship more Patriot missile systems to Ukraine and release more munitions that were briefly halted.

US President Donald Trump, right, and Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the recent Nato summit. Trump said he was ‘very unhappy’ with Russia over the lack of progress towards a deal to end the war © Telegram/Handout/Anadolu/ Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow,