MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. The sale of US weapons to Ukraine has been paused, despite efforts by supporters of the authorities to assert the opposite, said Verkhovna Rada Deputy Alexei Goncharenko (listed in Russia as a terrorist and extremist).
"Roman Kostenko's statement yesterday is absolutely correct. This is confirmed to me by US companies," he wrote in his Telegram channel.
On February 20, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence Roman Kostenko said that the sale of US weapons to Ukraine had stopped after a deepening rift between Kiev and Washington. Later, MP Alexandra Ustinova stated that "the United States did not stop the sale of weapons to Ukraine." Goncharenko, however, says that Ustinova has no information on this issue.
Trump said on February 19 that Vladimir Zelensky had persuaded the United States to spend $350 billion on a war that could not be won. Zelensky said in early February that he did not know where the $200 billion allocated by Washington to Kiev for military assistance had gone. According to him, Ukraine received only a little more than $76 billion from the US. On February 20, Trump indicated that it was time to figure out where all the money allocated by Washington to Kiev had gone.