Sources: US Halts Some Ukraine Missile Shipments Over Low Stockpiles

Newsmax ^ | July 2, 2025 | Rooters Sewer Service

[Navy Patriot]

The Pentagon has halted some shipments of air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine over concerns that U.S. stockpiles are too low, two people familiar with the decision said Tuesday.

The slowing of some weapons shipments promised to Kyiv by former President Joe Biden's administration came in recent days, they said, adding that air defense interceptors to help knock down Russian drones and projectiles were among the items delayed.

In recent weeks Russia has intensified air attacks on Ukraine's cities, on several nights launching hundreds of drones and missiles at a time, leading to widespread damage and an increase in civilian casualties.

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, he has softened Washington's position toward Russia, seeking a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine and raising doubts about future U.S. military support for Kyiv's war effort.

Fedir Venislavskyi, a member of the Ukrainian parliament's national security and defense committee, called the decision to halt the shipments "very unpleasant for us."

"It's painful, and against the background of the terrorist attacks which Russia commits against Ukraine, it's a very unpleasant situation," Venislavskyi told reporters.

Ukraine is already experiencing a shortage of 155 mm ammunition used for artillery on the front lines, said one Ukrainian defense source, calling the shortages and news of delays in U.S. supplies "all quite sad."

All weapons aid was briefly paused in February with a second, longer pause in March.

[Navy Patriot]

No worries, Germany will fill any need Ukraine has!

[rdcbn1]

This has been completely obvious to anyone who has been watching

This is part of the reason why President Trump has been pushing Zelensky to negotiate peace with Russia.

The Ukrainian economy has been propped up with close to 50 billion in US direct welfare payouts to cover government salaries, worker pay, healthcare, pension, military pay and welfare for the Ukrainian population. US aid money basically IS the Ukrainian economy.

The Ukraine has been running full speed into a wall that it will hit hard at the end of summer when military and financial aid from the insanity of the Biden era runs out and the US simply has no more to give.

The Ukraine is facing an impending simultaneous military and economic collapse in the next several months

The Ukrainian people have been kept in the dark about this impending disaster to maintain support for the war and the flows of US aid money to pay the bills has given them a false sense of normalcy when they are in fact in serious trouble - both militarily and economically.

[Navy Patriot]

Yep.

I wonder how long it will be before History will record the Truth?

[Spktyr]

“But but but but we were only sending our old surplus crap to Ukraine! Stuff we didn’t need and wouldn’t be any good in a real fight anyway!” - Entirely too many people I interacted with here on FR when I pointed out we were actually emptying our arsenals with no way to immediately refill them.

And we can’t refill them. All of the smart/seeker munitions require chips that we don’t make many of in the US because the supply of critical materials to make them just isn’t there.

Raytheon is on record as saying last year there was only sufficient supply of chips for them to turn out an average of one missile per day per plant, up from one missile per day overall the year or two before. Not because they couldn’t manufacture more airframes or warheads or motors, but because they couldn’t get the chips. They *wanted* to make more, to profit off the wars overseas, sure - but they were saying they just *couldn’t* make the munitions.

[rdcbn1]

It’s much worse than anyone can imagine. The original Biden plan was to provide Ukraine with early production, less capable versions of our front line weapons. The from old inventory deliveries were to be supplemented with new production copies of the older tech weapons to avoid giving Ukraine access to most modern tech.

Thing spun out of control in Ukraine and the Biden Administration was in some cases forced to send our very best and most modern weapons into the fight lot keep the Ukraine from being over run. Those modern versions we sent to Ukraine are being replaced in our inventory in some cases with the new production copies of the “obsolete” old tech versions intended for the Ukraine

So we have the intelligence losses of best equipment in Ukraine combined with the replacement of state of the art weapons into our war reserve stocks with new production “ obsoleted “ tech approved for use in Ukraine

[Spktyr]

Um, not worse than I can imagine. I was pointing out that those were frontline new non-export models being used over there and only to be shouted down by the usual idiots here at FR.

[USA-FRANCE]

Responding to your post number #2.

That’s an impressively cynical and nonsensical spin, evidently it doesn’t hold up under even minimal scrutiny.

Yes, US weapons (given to / or paid by Ukraine) are critical to Ukraine’s survival — just like Lend-Lease was to Britain’s in WWII. Supporting an ally against an aggressive invader isn’t “welfare,” it’s geopolitical self-defense. The idea that Ukraine’s entire economy only propped up by the US is wildly exaggerated; Ukraine has a functioning agricultural, industrial, and tech sector, even under wartime duress. Also, the EU, Japan, Australia are paying way more than America does when it comes to supporting Ukraine.

Next, your prediction of Ukraine’s imminent collapse parrots the same Kremlin narrative that’s been repeated every few months since February 2022 — and yet, Ukraine is still standing, its military is still fighting (and way better than ever before), and Russian forces continue to suffer staggering losses. It’s true Ukraine faces severe challenges, but there’s zero credible evidence of the kind of total economic or military collapse you’re describing.

Finally, the Ukrainian people aren’t ignorant pawns — they’re enduring the horrors of this Islamo-NeoSoviet-Commie invasion firsthand, and they overwhelmingly want to defend their country. Reducing them to clueless victims of US manipulation is patronizing and false.

[rdcbn1]

Both the Ukraine and Russia are killing each other and destroying their countries futures just at the point when they were finally recovering from the post Cold War depression the have been in for decades.

All cheered on by foreign instigators who are using the Ukraine to fight a proxy war to destroy both the Ukraine and Russia to further their agendas - one of which is to use Zelensky a foil to either force Trump to intervene in Ukraine or to shift the blame for the impending Ukraine crisis onto. President Trump and cast him as the guy who lost Ukraine

[ransomnote]

This chart under reports aid to Ukraine for the US. I know the last number I saw for Biden's support to Ukraine around August of 2025 was 189 Billion. That's not counting all the USAID graft etc. So this chart is missing substantial contributions from the US.

In the chart, Blue is Financial, Black is Humanitarian, and Grey is military support.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-aid-to-ukraine/ 

[Navy Patriot]

Thanks, Ransom!