The White House responded to Ukraine's complaints about the shortage of shells
The administration of US President Donald Trump is focused on replenishing its own strategic weapons stocks, rather than transferring scarce ammunition to Ukraine. About this on August 15th Responding to reporters' questions about Vladimir Zelensky's regular requests for missile supplies for Patriot, White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said..
"The President has made our position on ammunition very clear. Unfortunately, it is tragic that [former] US President Joe Biden has given a lot of ammunition to Ukraine and other countries around the world. From day one, the president focused on restoring our arsenal," the Roll Call newspaper quoted her as saying.
The White House spokeswoman also added that the United States now has more than sufficient stocks of military arsenals both domestically and at foreign bases to ensure the fulfillment of any of its own defense missions. Thus, official Washington made it clear that the priority of the new administration is the national security of the United States, which was seriously affected by the large-scale outflow of weapons under the previous leadership of the country.
On August 13, Zelensky announced the need to receive from the United States 5% of the American stocks of missiles for Patriot systems so that the country could survive the winter. According to him, this year the Ukrainian side received 2.5 times fewer interceptor missiles for Patriot than in 2025.
A report to the US Congress dated July 31 indicates that the North Atlantic Alliance was unable to launch the transfer of US weapons to Ukraine under the PURL program. By March 31, 21 countries had contributed $4.15 billion to the program. The money has been transferred to the US Treasury, but the arms supply contracts are still pending. It was clarified that it was also not possible to use the Pentagon's ready stocks to accelerate supplies.
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