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In reversal, Trump arms Ukraine, threatens sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil
Jul 14, 2025 9:28 AM

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Trump says he will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine

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Sits beside NATO's Rutte in Oval Office

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Shift brought on by disappointment with Russia

By Anastasiia Malenko, Steve Holland and Dan Peleschuk

KYIV/WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) -

U.S. President Donald Trump announced new weapons for

Ukraine on Monday, and threatened to hit buyers of Russian

exports with sanctions unless Russia agrees a peace deal in 50

days, a major shift in policy brought on by disappointment with

Moscow.

Sitting side-by-side with NATO Secretary General Mark

Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that he was

disappointed in Russian President Vladimir Putin. Billions of

dollars in weapons would be distributed to Ukraine, he said.

"We're going to make top-of-the-line weapons, and they'll be

sent to NATO," Trump said, adding that Washington's NATO allies

would pay for the weapons.

The weapons would include Patriot air defence missiles,

which Ukraine has urgently sought to defend its cities from

Russian air strikes.

"It's a full complement with the batteries," Trump said.

"We're going to have some come very soon, within days... a

couple of the countries that have Patriots are going to swap

over and will replace the Patriots with the ones they have."

His threat to impose so-called secondary sanctions on

Russia, if carried out, would be a major shift in Western

sanctions policy. Lawmakers from both political parties in the

United States are pushing for a bill that would authorise such

measures.

Throughout the more than three-year-old war, Western

countries have cut off most of their own financial ties to

Moscow, but have held back from taking steps that would restrict

Russia from selling its oil elsewhere. That has allowed Moscow

to continue earning hundreds of billions of dollars from

shipping oil to buyers such as China and India.

"We're going to be doing secondary tariffs," Trump said. "If

we don't have a deal in 50 days, it's very simple, and they'll

be at 100%."

A White House official said Trump was referring to 100%

tariffs on Russian exports as well as secondary sanctions on

other countries that buy its exports.

Trump, who returned to power this year promising a quick end

to the war, said his shift was motivated by increasing

frustration with Putin, who, he said, had talked about peace but

continued to strike Ukrainian cities.

"We actually had probably four times a deal. And then the

deal wouldn't happen because bombs would be thrown out that

night and you'd say we're not making any deals," Trump said.

(Additional reporting by Frank Jack Daniel in Kyiv, Kevin

Lamarque in Washington, Sabine Siebold in Berlin and Lidia Kelly

in Warsaw, Writing by Timothy Heritage and Peter Graff

Editing by Gareth Jones and Andrew Heavens)

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