By Gram Slattery, Mike Stone, Jonathan Landay and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons,

The US is moving to get weapons to Ukraine under Trump's plan for Europe to buy arms and is weighing selling Patriot air defense systems from its own stocks.

By Ben Aris in Berlin At least four countries are already bailing out of commitments to pay the US for weapons supplies for Ukraine, raising a question mark over the level of support Ukraine can expect now that Trump administration has withdrawn.

New developments Tuesday reinforced the idea that President Donald Trump has significantly shifted his view of the Ukraine war.

If Trump now permits a substantial amount of U.S. weapons to continue to flow to Ukraine, that would mark an important change. Since Trump took office, many in Ukraine and European capitals have thought that might well be the best-case scenario for Ukraine, given the U.S. president's clear hostility to continuing U.S. donations.

It used to be 24 hours,” Lavrov said of Trump’s pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine war within his first day in office. “It used to be 100 days. We have been through all of this and we really want to understand what motivates the president of the United States.