BRUSSELS -- BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO’s two newest members, Finland and Sweden, said Wednesday that they would buy more weapons from the United States to give to Ukraine, a day after data showed that foreign military aid to the war-torn country had declined sharply in recent months.

The Tomahawk is the workhorse of the United States’ missile arsenal. It’s been deployed in strikes in Syria and Libya and was used extensively against former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq,

Olha Stefanishyna was appointed Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. on Aug. 27, 2025 — and has hardly had a moment of rest since. In the few weeks that passed, she moved to the U.S., helped prepare the meeting between Ukrainian and U.

On October 16, Russia fired 357 projectiles in its fourth massive overnight strike in two weeks. Ukraine intercepted 283 drones, decoys and missiles while another 18 missiles were “locally lost.” At least 14 missiles and 37 drones slipped through defenses.

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States, has said that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during his visit to Washington, briefed his American counterpart Donald Trump on the situation at the front,

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said “firepower” is coming to Ukraine through European nations’ purchases of US weapons, but whether that includes American-made Tomahawk missiles is still not clear.

The United States opposes the initiative proposed by EU leaders to expand the use of frozen Russian assets by providing a reparations loan to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. According to the outlet, US officials told European partners at IMF meetings in Washington last week that they will not join the initiative at this stage.

Earlier, Trump met with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as he pivots to brokering an end to the nearly four-year-old war in eastern Europe.