During a briefing in Washington, the Coordinator of the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, reported that the Ukrainian military was forced to carefully distribute ammunition because of the threat of their exhaustion. According to Kirby, this situation creates the opportunity for the occupiers to make more attacks on Ukrainian positions and peaceful cities.

US President Donald Trump faced the dilemma: to release or preserve his adviser Michael Voltz. The main reason for Trump's indignation was not the leakage of important information, but the fact that the Voltz had contact with The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Trump frankly hates.

The incident happened after Trump's adviser accidentally added Goldberg to Signal Chat, which discussed the US future attack on Yemen. As a result, the journalist was accessed to secret data. However, instead of focusing on the problem of information leakage, the President of the United States was angry because of the Voltz's connection with the journalist. In public, Trump demonstrated the support of the adviser, calling him a "good person" and criticizing the media for blowing the situation. However, behind the closed doors, its tone was completely different. The sources of The New York Times claim that the President was angry and tried to find a reason to liberate Voltz. Most of all, Trump was upset, not even the fact of leakage, but that the Voltz was talking to Goldberg in general. After all, this journalist has repeatedly criticized the President, and he has been treating him for a long time.

Despite the annoyance, Trump decided not to release the Voltz. The main reason is the unwillingness to create scandals at the beginning of their second presidential term. According to sources, Trump seeks to avoid public personnel permutations at the top of the US leadership, at least at the beginning of his administration.