President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the US has not stopped giving Ukraine military aid, amid fears newly inaugurated President Donald Trump could slash America's support package to Kyiv.
Speaking at a press conference with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, Zelenskyy said he was 'focused on military aid, adding help from the US had 'not been stopped, thank God'.
Ukraine currently relies on the US for around 40 per cent of its military needs. Zelenskyy did not clarify if humanitarian aid had been put on hold. It comes after newly sworn in US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days.
President Trump has repeatedly said he would not have allowed Russia's invasion of Ukraine to begin if he had been in office, although he was in office as fighting grew in the east of the country between Kyiv's forces and separatists aligned with Moscow.
Vladmir Putin appeared to agree with his sentiments, saying during an interview the war could have been avoided had President Trump not been 'robbed of the election' in Describing his armed forces' full-scale invasion of their neighbour in February as a 'crisis ', Putin told state media the horrific bloodshed that has blighted eastern Europe for almost three years would not have happened under a Trump presidency.
