Washington DC, July 11 -- US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a new agreement has been reached with NATO, under which the military alliance will bear the full cost of weapons being sent to Ukraine, The Hill reported.

"We're sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100 per cent," Trump said in a phone interview with NBC News.

"So, what we're doing is, the weapons that are going out are going to NATO, and then NATO is going to be giving those weapons [to Ukraine], and NATO is paying for those weapons," he added, as quoted by The Hill.

Trump noted that the deal was reached in June during the NATO summit held in The Hague. "We send weapons to NATO, and NATO is going to reimburse the full cost of those weap...