US representative Keith Kellogg will be going to Kyiv early next week, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated. The United States is again shipping military aid to Ukraine and sending its special representative, Keith Kellogg, to Kyiv next week, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In his evening address on Friday night, Ukraine’s president stated that American aid shipments were resumed after the Pentagon temporarily suspended shipments of some weapons to Kyiv. We received political signals at the topmost level – positive signals – including from America, from our European allies,” he noted. Zelenskyy further indicated that his nation was consulting with its allies “on new supplies, more weapons production in Ukraine and more support for our army”.
“Next week we will continue to work with the US side on a military level, including between our military and General Kellogg,” he mentioned. In the first week of July, the Trump administration suspended deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, including air defence missiles, due to concerns that its stocks were running low.
The suspension came as Russia’s aerial bombing of Ukraine spiked, with Moscow forces launching 728 drones and 13 missiles at it on Wednesday, the highest single-day total in over three years of conflict.
The US pause in military aid also coincided with Ukraine experiencing its greatest number of monthly civilian losses during the entire war. In June, 232 were killed and 1,343 wounded, the human rights mission in Ukraine said.
Following the US announcement earlier this week to resume supply shipments to Kyiv, US President Donald Trump on Thursday stated that his nation was transferring weapons to NATO and could be reshipped from there to Ukraine by its members. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio verified on Friday that European countries could donate some of their military equipment to Kyiv and purchase replacements from the U.S.
It’s quicker to bring something, say, from Germany to Ukraine than order it from a [US] factory and receive it there,” Rubio stated in a visit to Malaysia. On the front line, meanwhile, Russia’s military attacked Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa on Friday morning, wounding at least eight individuals, said Ukrainian local officials. Overnight Russian strikes on eastern Ukraine also wounded nine and led to the evacuation of a maternity hospital in Kharkiv, President Zelenskyy reported.
