The United States under the Trump administration will no longer be sharing intelligence data and information with the nation of Ukraine. Under President Joe Biden, the US was aiding Ukraine in missile targeting, but that will no longer be happening. This change poses a serious problem to Kyiv’s ability to take aim at Russian targets.
On Monday, Trump halted military aid to Ukraine. This comes after a disastrous Oval Office meeting on Friday, during which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talked over Trump, got into an argument with Vice President JD Vance, refused to sign a rare earth minerals deal without security guarantees, and said explicitly that if the US didn’t continue to fund the war in Ukraine, Americans would “feel it.”
“US intelligence cooperation,” the Financial Times reports, “has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets.” While Biden had permitted American intelligence to be used to aid Ukraine in striking Russian targets, the administration had declined to allow American weapons to be used to strike targets deep within Russia. Zelensky had been pushing that administration for months to allow him to do just that. Now, he and his military will be unable to use the missile