Security experts warn against Putin’s “above” while the United States stops the defensive aid of Ukraine

The Pentagon decision to previously stops air defense systems in Ukraine met with worrying warnings of security experts based in Washington on Wednesday, who warned this decision “would encourage” and perhaps “degenerate” the ambitions of the war of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The decision was confirmed by Fox News on Tuesday evening after the Defense Under-Secretary for the Elbridge Colby policy assessed that the United States had dangerously weak ammunition stocks.

However, experts sound the alarm that the decision undermines the American and Ukrainian lever while President Donald Trump seeks to negotiate a cease-fire contract.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stands in front of a system of patriotic air defense missiles during a visit to a military training area in the German state of Western Pomérania, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (Jens Buettner / DPA via AP)

“The Trump administration is right to set up American fighters first,” said John Hardie, deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) Russia, in a press release at Fox News Digital. “Many of these ammunition were not drawn from American actions but were rather purchased specifically for kyiv as part of the Ukrainian security assistance initiative.”

US military officials confirmed that the weapons set for expedition to Ukraine were already organized in Poland before the Pentagon published its order to reverse the supplies promised during the Biden administration.

“By weakening the defenses of Ukraine and fueling the perceptions that America is tired of supporting Ukraine, this decision will probably strengthen Putin’s conviction that he has the upper hand,” said Hardie. “It will make him even more uncompromising.”

Fox News confirmed that US military officials were following expeditions that the selected systems include missile interceptors and 155 mm ammunition shells – defensive equipment to be delivered at a time when Russia has considerably accelerated its offensive.

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A steel worker moves an M795 155 mm M795 artillery projectile during the Manitions Factory of the Army of the Army of Scranon in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Thursday, April 13, 2023. (AP photo / Matt Rourke)

In June, the Russian forces broke their previous record for the number of drones drawn from Ukraine in a single month by taking more than 5,300 drones in a series of mass attacks – from the previous record set in March when nearly 4,200 drones were launched.

“Putin has launched an intensified air attack, targeting civilians in Ukraine cities with hundreds of drones and missiles,” FDDord May, Fox News Digital. “Cutting or even slowing down ammunition in Ukraine can only encourage Putin to continue and even intensify this offensive.

“This cannot be what President Trump wants,” he added.

Ukraine echo these concerns On Wednesday and called on the American chief diplomat in Kyiv to meet officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“The Ukrainian party stressed that any delay or slowdown in supporting the defense capacities of Ukraine would encourage the attacker to continue the war and terror, rather than asking for peace,” the ministry said after his meeting with John Ginkel, deputy chief of the mission at the US Embassy in Kyiv.

Neither the American Embassy nor the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately answered questions from Fox News Digital concerning the meeting.

Russia has launched its greatest air assault on Ukraine overnight since the start of the war over the day when fires burned in kyiv on May 25, 2025. (Reuters / Gleb Guarantor)

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The attacks of Russia, which have increased in gravity and frequency, coincided with unsuccessful efforts to ensure a cease-fire by the Trump administration, and came while Putin also amassed some 50,000 soldiers along the northern border of Ukraine in what some fear could report plans to launch another field offensive.

Ukraine’s special envoy, General Keith Kellogg, did not immediately answer questions from Fox News Digital on how the order of the Pentagon will have an impact on attempts at war and ceasefire.

Jennifer Griffen and Jasmine Baehr of Fox News contributed to this report.