The United States is selling weapons to European countries, which are then sold to Ukraine, with a 10% markup. This was stated in an interview with Fox News by US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
„I think President Trump is very vigilant right now. "We sell weapons to Europeans, who then sell them to Ukrainians, and President Trump takes a 10% markup on weapons, so maybe that 10% will cover the cost of air cover," he said, responding to a journalist's question about whether American taxpayers would pay for air cover that the US military could provide to European countries in Ukraine if such an agreement were reached.
Besent did not rule out the possibility of a trilateral summit between Russia, the United States and Ukraine being held in the Hungarian capital.
„Possible. "But first we need to see how the bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelensky goes," he said.
The White House is looking at Hungary and Switzerland as possible locations for a future meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents, as well as a follow-up trilateral summit with US President Donald Trump, CNN reported, citing three White House officials.
According to one of them, the US president personally discussed the possibility of holding the meeting in Budapest in a recent phone call with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who "is an ally of both Trump and Putin."
The sources stressed that no final decision has yet been made and that various options are being discussed. One of the officials noted that planning for the trilateral summit was postponed after Trump announced that Putin and Zelensky would have to meet first.