US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he would send more weapons to Ukraine after Russia claimed a new breakthrough in the war against Ukraine. While Washington said only last week that it had halted arms shipments to Kiev.

 The standoff posed a potentially serious challenge to Kiev in the Russia-Ukraine conflict that has been going on for more than three years. Ukraine continues to face Russian missile and drone attacks. 

'We will have to send more weapons, mainly defensive weapons', Trump told reporters at the White House, 'They (Ukrainians) have been hurt a lot.'

Since 2022, Russia-Ukraine war, despite Trump's pressure, it was said that Putin also showed his desire to end the conflict. But after Moscow said on Monday that its security forces had captured the village of Dachne in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region, the US president announced that more weapons would be sent to Ukraine.

Before Trump's announcement, Russia launched a large-scale drone and missile attack targeting military recruiting centers in Ukraine. Kiev also claimed a drone attack on a Russian ammunition factory in the Moscow region. The village of Dachne, said to be occupied by Russia, is an important industrial mining area in Ukraine.

Moscow's security forces were reported to have crossed the border into the Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time last month. The presence of Russian troops in the region is said to pose logistical and economic problems for Ukraine.

Kiev has denied the presence of Russian military forces in Dnipropetrovsk. The Ukrainian army claims to have "resisted" Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk, including the village of Dachne. Dnipropetrovsk is one of the five Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Crimea.

Moscow has been publicly claiming these five areas as Russian territory. Describing the situation in Dnipropetrovsk as "difficult" for Kiev's military forces, Ukrainian military expert Alexei Kopytko said Russia wanted to create some sort of buffer zone in the region. said, "Our forces are keeping their position very stable." 

The White House said last week it had halted some key arms shipments to Ukraine promised by Trump's predecessor, Joe Biden. Washington said the decision was made after reviewing US defense needs and military assistance abroad. After Trump returned to the Trump White House in January, after criticizing the billions of dollars in support and arms sent by Biden, there was a high risk that long-standing US aid to Kiev would be suspended.