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Remember last week and that collective sigh of relief among allies that Donald Trump had a) showed up at the Nato summit and b) agreed to a sidebar meeting with his Ukranian counterpart after which the U-S president gushed that Volodymyr Zelenskiy “couldn't have been nicer.” Quite the contrast with that February White House ambush on live television that so spooked Europeans.

But that was a week ago. Now comes a double whammy: a pause in US arms shipments to Ukraine – officially to replenish stockpiles – but the freeze includes weapons and ammo already in neighboring Poland.

Add to that news that Washington’s lifting of sanctions on Syria also includes Russian oligarchs and entities also implicated in the invasion of Ukraine. We asked about the ways Russia keeps exporting oil and cashing checks from abroad.

And as Ukraine figures out how to resist without Washington’s help, we talked about Europe’s efforts. On that score, what to make of Tuesday’s first phone call between French president Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022?

Produced by François Picard, Aurore Laborie, Ilayda Habip and Alessandro Xenos.

Too late to win over Trump? Europe frets as US freezes some weapons for Ukraine

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Too late to win over Trump? Europe frets as US freezes some weapons for Ukraine