The White House said the United States stopped shipping some weapons to Ukraine.

The White House said that the United States has stopped shipping some weapons to Kiev due to the intensification of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

White House spokesman Anna Kelly said Tuesday that the decision was to “put America’s interests first” after the Defense Department reviewed the U.S. Department of Defense “military support and assistance to other countries.”

Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, the United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, causing the Trump administration to express concerns about the low U.S. stock in the Trump administration.

The Ukrainian government has not commented on the announcement. U.S. officials did not immediately say which goods were stopped.

Reuters news agency said that it is understood that air defense missiles and precision ammunition are one of the affected weapons. Officials told U.S. media that the pause involved the delivery of Patriot air defense missiles, precision shells and other missile systems used by Ukraine.

The decision happened during a difficult time in Ukraine, which Ukraine said has begun with more than 500 drones, ballistics and cruise missiles since the full-scale Russian invasion over the weekend.

A U.S. official told CBS News that the Pentagon’s move was based on concerns about the low U.S. military reserves, although Anna Kelly stressed that “the strength of the U.S. armed forces is still unquestionable – just asking Iran.”

In addition, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Policy Elbridge Colby said in a statement that the Department of Defense “continues to provide the president with a strong choice to continue providing military aid to Ukraine.”

However, he added: “The department is strictly inspecting and adjusting its approach to achieving this goal, while also retaining the preparations for the U.S. military to prepare for administrative defense priorities.”

President Donald Trump has discussed air defense defense with Ukraine’s Volodimir Zelensky at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.

Trump said U.S. officials “will see if we can make some of them available” Asked by the BBC About providing additional Patriot anti-missile system to Ukraine.

Trump refers to his conversation with Zelensky, saying: “Sometimes we have some tough times, but he can’t be better.”

The two fought fiercely in the Oval Office in March this year. After that, Trump said he was suspending military aid to Ukraine designated by the Biden administration. Intelligence sharing shared with Ukraine was also suspended.

But both pauses were lifted.

In late April, the United States and Ukraine signed an agreement that would allow the United States to obtain Ukraine’s mineral reserves in exchange for military aid.

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for the first time in two and a half years.

Macron’s office said they spoke on the phone for more than two hours, adding that the French president urged a ceasefire in Ukraine and began negotiations to begin with a “stable and lasting settlement of the conflict.”

The Kremlin said Putin “reminds Macron” that Western policies should be attributed to war because it “ignored Russia’s security interests for many years.”

Last month, a long-time Russian leader told a forum in St. Petersburg that he saw Russians and Ukrainians as one person, “in this sense, the whole of Ukraine is ours.”

Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean Peninsula annexed in 2014.

Russia has made slow progress in Ukraine in recent months and claims full control of the East Luhansk region this week. It also claims to have occupied territory in the southeast of Dnipropetrovsk.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian attacks Three people killed in a Russian weapon production factory Manufactured drones and radars in Izhevsk, more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the border with Ukraine.