The reason why the US stopped providing weapons for Ukraine: “It is not directly tied to what they have in stocks”

The US decision no longer provides essential armament for the defense of Ukraine is only partially determined by the alleged problems with stocks, says General (r) Virgil Bălăceanu, who represented Romania at the NATO command in Brussels.

Stopping the delivery of ammunition for Patriot will mean more dead in Ukraine. Photo: Profimedia

The deliveries of air defense missiles and other weapons previously promised to Kiev from the US has been stopped, writes Polito, according to anonymous sources. The information was also published by Reuters.

The decision comes in the context in which Ukraine is facing a lack of air defense ammunition, as well as with increasingly intense Russian bombing. In June 2025, Russia launched 5,337 shahed drones on Ukraine, lowering the previous monthly record.

The articles detained in Ukraine include Patriot air defense missiles, precision artillery, hellfire rockets, drones and other types of missiles launched by Ukraine on F-16 hunting aircraft. It seems that the decision was made in June, when Ukraine faced an increase in Russian attacks with drones and rockets and, implicitly, with an increasing number of victims among Ukrainian civilians.

Pentagon sources have transmitted that the decision was taken to protect US interests and to support military and other countries of the world, given the concern existing for the stocks available to the American army.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that it has not been officially notified of any deliveries to the US and requests clarifications from its American counterparts.

General (r) Virgil Bălăceanu, who represented Romania at the NATO Command in Brussels and was head of the multinational brigade in south-east Europe, spoke for the “Adevărul” about the impact of this decision and the causes that led to this evolution.

“Human and material losses will be increasing”

The hard will be carried by Ukraine, but also the Western partners of the country attacked by Russia, who will have to supplement the goal left free by the US.

“It will be very difficult for European countries, we are talking about the NATO European Plus Canada format, to supplement the American aid that seems to have been stopped, including the one in the transit phase through Poland. And the suspension of the aid would target the Patriot missiles, the reactive GMLRS projects, the extinguishing anti-aircraft, the AIM-7 air-type air. Not necessarily an operational, but a stock for more difficult situations, because now the American army, as well as other armies, including Romania, use AIM -20 ARMS, the differences are substantial in terms of the ability of such a rocket.”, Says the general.

As for the effects, it claims that Ukraine's anti -aircraft and missile defense will be affected first. “And we witnessed that massive hit with over 500 drones, about 60 ballistic and cruise missiles. The degree of Ukrainian interception has decreased, so they already have problems and the problems will be emphasized“He explained.

On the other hand, it will suffer the capacity for anti -aircraft and missile defense of strategic objectives, including the civil infrastructure that is still hit by the Russians: “It will have some important decreases and hence the conclusions that the human and material losses will be increasing.”

On the other hand, stopping the delivery of 155 mm, especially, will affect the support of the defense actions, such as stabilizing the front in the bridgehead that the Russians have done in the Sumî area. “The Ukrainians managed to maintain a locality on the Russian territory and would have stopped the Russians offensive beyond the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine because they made a bridgehead of about 160 km2”details the general in the reserve.

It will be affected, especially, says Bălăceanu, the continuation of the defense struggle and maintaining the alignments by the Ukrainian forces in the Donbas area.

“There is already a concentration of forces, an operational group of over 100,000 people, says Sîrski, which aimed to conquer the two extremely important points, Torețk and Pokrovsk, which would open and favor the Russian offensive towards the fortress belt, namely Constantinvca, Druzhkivka, Kraviansk and Sloviansk. For Ukrainian defense, it will be challenging from European support“He shows.

He said that in 2024, the European support plus Canada exceeded the American help. “I.On the other hand, American support during the Bidenic administration meant hundreds of billions of dollars, but only $ 60 billion. As such, these figures must be taken into account as they are close to reality and not as a political discourse that comes from the Trump Administration ”says the general.

“The Russians can conquer the donbas”

“We will see the degree of adaptability of the anti-aircraft and missile defense of the Ukrainians and the resistance on the alignments, or especially on the alignments we mentioned.details Bălăceanu.

Unfortunately, Europe is not very good with stocks, nor with the production of 155 millimeters, but it has possibilities from such a point of view to complete at least part of the number of howitzers that are not delivered by the United States.

“Also, the battle of the artillery of the two parties, Ukrainian and Russian, continues. They represent an extremely important factor for the stability of defense. We speak of up to 10,000 howitzers that the Russians use. Ukrainians of 152, 122, 120 mm from their own production and then the repercussions may favor the field actions of the Russian Federation ”explains the specialist.

He claims that the Russians are targeting more offensive directions: “We will see if the directions that are targeted by him, the development of the bridgehead in Sumî, the conquest of the city of Kupiansk, the fall of the Lâman, from where he is intended and attacked on the fortress belt, I have to register it well, because with the fall of the fortress belt means that the Russians will be able to conquer the Donbas. Donetsk-Harkov and Dnepropetrovsk.

“We consider a political decision”

Asked if the US decision can be interpreted as a pressure on Ukraine to be more malleable to negotiation, Bălăceanu replied: “We can also consider concrete elements. I do not know exactly what the stock of patriot rockets is, but the patriot rockets have been used during the defense of Israel, although interesting is that, in the last period, they have removed the Israelis from use the Patriot system, replacing it with their own systems. But it was not reached the delivery of systems and rockets to Ukraine. It was a solution that the Ukrainians had identified at one point in strengthening the anti -aircraft defense. ”

On the other hand, there may be a decrease in patriotic rocket stock.

“Of course, it may be a pretty serious decrease in the US patriotic stock stock. The United States is now involved, not in Europe, but they remain involved in the Middle East and in the Persian Gulf area. The need for anti-aircraft defense, including through the Patriot systems, is valid, but regarding the other categories of ammunition, there is and there is a health, Increased relatively well in the last period, it can cover these needs of Ukraine.details the general.

The problem is that the Russian Federation will not be satisfied with a little. “It will not be satisfied with a cessation of fire and an armistice for the determined period, if it does not have to clarify the objectives they propose, objectives that keep, by the roots of this war, roots that start before the moment of February 2022, start from 2014 ”shows Bălăceanu.

Russia follows the military, political and in a fairly considerable economic proportion of Ukraine, he concluded.