Good morning! Start your Friday with SOFREP’s Morning Brief for May 23, 2025—your quick intel on defense and global affairs.

Within days of a Jan. 30 meeting with President Donald Trump, Hegseth paused 11 planes carrying artillery shells and other ...

Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied discussing foreign aid to Ukraine during his high-stakes phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, contradicting a central claim the ...

Ukrainian forces have stalled Russian attacks around the besieged eastern front line city of Pokrovsk, Ukraine’s military ...

Following the Trump administration’s decision to pause military aid to Ukraine, Kilmeade took to ... the Bagram Air Base (the Taliban has denied that China controls the former U.S. base).

and he appears to include only weapons as aid “received.” General Keith Kellogg, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, denied these interpretations. He noted that “we have a ...

Last month, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has denied a report in German media outlet Bild, which cited an unnamed Ukrainian source that Kyiv was looking to develop WMDs [weapons of mass destruction].

which the Biden administration has repeatedly denied. On Wednesday ... is expected to commit the remaining authority to Ukraine and send the aid shipments over the course of the next few months.

And in early February 2025, he indicated he wanted access to Ukraine’s rare earth materials industry in exchange for American aid – a deal originally floated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

open image in gallery Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly ordered a pause of 11 flights with Ukraine aid shortly after ... The White House has denied reports suggesting that Hegseth could ...

But Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham the topic of aid to Ukraine never came up in their conversation. The Kremlin said that Putin "demanded an immediate cessation of aid to the Ukraine in order ...