Trump told Zelensky he was open to providing new long-range weapons in potentially huge policy change, report says
Source: The Independent
Friday 26 September 2025 16:39 EDT
President Donald Trump reportedly told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was open to lifting certain restrictions on the use of certain U.S.-made weapons, signaling a potentially huge change in policy.
The president signaled that he would be willing to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia for the first time during a meeting between the two men at this weeks United Nations General Assembly.
A senior U.S. official and a Ukrainian official both confirmed the contents of Tuesdays meeting to The Wall Street Journal.
It came following Trumps lengthy speech to world leaders in New York Tuesday, in which he targeted Russian leader Vladimir Putin for his bad leadership and appeared to reverse his stance on Ukraine retaking territory occupied by the Kremlins forces.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-zelensky-long-range-weapons-russia-policy-b2834633.html
republianmushroom
(22,702 posts)popsdenver
(2,628 posts)it's a head fake..............He has done this so many times, it's ludicrous to even give it a mention.
He is attacking Venezuela because they are not controlled by a dictator/tyrant AND THEY HAVE THE LARGEST OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD, EVEN BIGGER THAN THE SAUDIS.........
SSJVegeta
(3,133 posts)MLWR
(1,076 posts)TomSlick
(13,092 posts)Putin will jerk Trump's leash. He'll come to heel.
Buddyzbuddy
(2,906 posts)Norrrm
(5,592 posts)Rhetorical question.
ananda
(35,514 posts)Fat chance, tubby.
mdbl
(8,751 posts)while Dump tries to decide if he's loved or not. F'ing psychopaths.
Snoopy 7
(732 posts)What trump has done is he first told the EU to send Ukraine their missles and he would replenish them to the EU. But, what has trump done(?), trump has depleated the EU's balistics and not restored their inventory. What does this mean? Ukraine and the EU are running out of missles and trump hopes this will help his daddy vlad. At the same time who is building more balistic missles during trumps collapsing economy, well nobody that I can see...
(Quiet pause on some sales: In a major shift reported in September 2025, the U.S. has quietly paused or restricted certain arms exports to Europe. The move, attributed to the "America First" agenda under the Trump administration, is reportedly to rebuild U.S. military stockpiles.)
BumRushDaShow
(172,273 posts)The MIC NEVER sleeps. They probably have orders going back 5 years in the pipeline (they were supposed to be replacing the bigguns but I expect the ATACMS & successors, are the ones that are being replaced, upgraded, and used).
lark
(26,113 posts)Can't trust any drivel out of that ugly fake spray tanned mouth. I'll believe it when it actually happens.
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