Washington, July 9 (Reporter) US President Donald Trump was reportedly caught "flat footed" by the resumption of American military supplies to Ukraine, stating yesterday that he has no idea who authorised the said shipment, amid Washington’s temporary pause in specific weapons systems to Kyiv, reports The Guardian. Last week, the Pentagon announced it would temporarily withhold shipments of the MIM-104 Patriot interceptor missiles, precision-guided GMLRS rockets, Hellfire missiles, Howitzer rounds, and other defensive weapons amid Pentagon’s "strategic reassessment" of its munitions supplies which are running low, as well as its growing focus on West Asia. The pause came at a particularly vulnerable time for Ukraine, which is facing intensified air assaults by Russia in the war’s third year, and an increasingly low stockpile. On July 7, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the halt in the delivery of specific munitions to Kiev was a result of a routine review of all military support provided by the United States globally, not solely focused on Ukraine. While Trump had pledged to continue supplies to Ukraine in terms of “defensive capability”, the reports of the sudden authorisation was news to him which caught him “flat footed”, and was noticeably frustrated upon finding out. When asked about who authorised the shipment at a cabinet meeting, Trump curtly told reporters "I don’t know. Why don’t you tell me?" Two of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the sensitive internal discussions, said there was some internal opposition among Pentagon brass to the pause — coordinated by Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby — before it was announced. Yesterday, each of the services and the combatant commands — the multiservice organisations that spearhead U.S. military operations around the world — were still sending up information on their stockpiles of specific munitions to Pentagon leadership, a US official said. “They are literally still doing the math,” the official confirmed. Nonetheless, early assessments have reportedly confirmed a near critical shortage of certain munitions, with factories working overtime trying to maximise production for both domestic use and exports. Calculating the exact number of weapons on hand is a tough process, owed to the bureaucratic complexity and overlapping jurisdiction within the different branches of the US military...////...