A leading Democratic member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fresh off a trip to Ukraine, charged Monday that President Donald Trump’s halt of U.S. military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv is “weakening” its position in talks with Russia to end the three-year-long war.
“When you negotiate the end of a conflict, you want to be negotiating from a position of strength,” Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., told reporters after returning from a weekend trip to Ukraine. “What the administration did, cutting off weapons to Ukraine and cutting off intelligence, is the exact opposite of that.”
Kelly, the ranking member of the Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, is the first lawmaker to visit Ukraine since Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy clashed at the White House late last month, a shocking public spat that stalled completion of a key rare earth minerals deal.
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