"It's a mess," Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused 11 military aid flights bound for Ukraine earlier this year without informing the president or other top Pentagon officials, Reuters reported, the latest damning report surrounding Hegseth—though the White House claims Hegseth was following the president’s directive.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefly — and mistakenly — halted a military aid shipment to Ukraine during President Trump’s first weeks in office without getting final approval, a source familiar with the situation told The Post.