NATO Will Buy US Weapons for Ukraine, Trump Says

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that NATO will buy the US weapons for Ukraine. We're sending weapons to NATO and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100%. So what we're doing is the weapons that are going out are going to NATO and then NATO is going to be giving those weapons to Ukraine and NATO is paying for those weapons, Trump told NBC News. We send weapons to NATO and NATO is going to reimburse the full cost of those weapons, he added. Trump said the deal was finalized during the NATO summit last month. He also said he would make a major statement on Russia on Monday without elaborating. I think I'll have a major statement to make on Russia on Monday, Trump told NBC News. In recent days, Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the lack of progress towards ending the war sparked by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.