US Pressure on Ukraine Military Decisions

Halyna, you mentioned that you have your own sources and your own

colleagues, as it were, in American politics.

The Kyiv Independent recently wrote that representatives of the U.S. administration

threatened Ukrainian senior— senior officials, including

from the Ukrainian army and government officials, demanding that they not attack

Russian oil refineries, with cutting off, uh,

intelligence sharing and even suspending the PUR program.

According to the Financial Times, this concerned Pavlo, Pavlo Palisa.

He is, uh, the deputy head of the President's Office.

And, in fact, they allegedly even called

Drapatyi.

Did such pressure really take place? Is the—the cost of

stopping strikes on oil refineries possibly the suspension of intelligence sharing

and the suspension of the PUR arms supply program for Ukraine?

Uh, well, I, I think that, after all, for certain

Only Drapatyi can confirm or deny this information

or Palisa. But in my view, uh,

actually, if such a decision were made,

specifically regarding the PUR program,

it would harm, first and foremost, uh, not even Ukraine, but

America.

Why?

Why? Uh, well, to explain why, we need to briefly explain

what the PUR program is.

It's, uh, well, this kind of program, yeah, or

an instrument under which the, uh, European

Union can buy American weapons from American

manufacturers and transfer them to Ukraine.

As a priority.

As a priority. That is, first and foremost, we're talking about means

for,

uh, air— uh, air defense.

That is, in principle, we're not even talking about any kind of, well, active

combat operations. This is protection, first and foremost, for Ukrainian

citizens and Ukrainian infrastructure, including energy infrastructure.

But the first to suffer from this decision

will be American arms manufacturers

because they will effectively lose, well, this fairly large market.

Now, uh, actually

Ukraine's consumption of ammunition, including for air defense, is

the largest in the world. So, uh, such a decision

by the American president, which will harm the American economy,

and especially when we are talking about, well, the approach

of elections, uh,

to Congress, well, frankly, it again causes

surprise, misunderstanding, uh, and,

well,

I don't even know how to describe, uh, the full range of these

emotions. But in diplomatic language, it is quite

difficult to describe.

Therefore, well, on the other hand, there have actually already been such

precedents for us. If I'm not mistaken, about a year or a year and a half ago, there was also

a form of blackmail by the Trump administration over the suspension,

uh, of intelligence sharing, and even for half a day or a day,

such intelligence sharing was, was suspended.

What does this mean for Ukraine? Uh, first and foremost, it means

that we will not be able to see Russian

ballistic missile launches.

For other—

On aircraft.

Huh?

That is, we will not be able to receive an air raid alert in time about

ballistic missile launches.

Specifically ballistic missiles, because ballistic missiles can only be seen by

essentially

American, uh, those, you know, satellite systems.

But, uh, we basically cooperate and also receive

fairly

well, quite good and prompt data, uh, from our European

friends and partners. The only thing is that European

satellites actually have limitations, they cannot see or transmit information

about ballistic missiles as quickly.

So, returning once again to that, how to comment on this, well, we

see yet another, in fact, another statement and

another possible action, where President Trump shoots

himself in the foot. And this is absolutely incomprehensible and absolutely,

well, simply impossible to either explain or approve on the eve of

the elections in America.

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