BRIDGEWATER, NJ — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump this week on the heels of the U.S. leader announcing plans to sell weaponry to NATO allies that they can then pass on to Ukraine.

NATO announced Sunday that Rutte will be in Washington on Monday and Tuesday and would hold talks with Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and members of Congress.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the visit.

A top ally of Trump, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said Sunday that the war is nearing an inflection point as Trump shows growing interest in helping Ukraine fight back Russia. It’s a cause that Trump previously dismissed as being a waste of U.S. taxpayer money, but during his campaign, he made a top priority of quickly ending the war.

“In the coming days, you’ll see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves,” Graham said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“One of the biggest miscalculations (Russian President Vladimir) Putin has made is to play Trump. And you just watch, in the coming days and weeks, there’s going to be a massive effort to get Putin to the table.”

The Rutte visit comes as Trump teased last week that he would make a “major statement” Monday on Russia and Ukraine struggles to repel massive and complex air assaults launched by Russian forces.

Graham and Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who also appeared on CBS, said there is also growing consensus on Capitol Hill and among European officials about tapping some of the $300 billion in Russian assets frozen by Group of Seven countries early in the war to help Ukraine.

“It’s time to do it,” Blumenthal said.

Rubio said Friday that some of the U.S.-made weapons that Ukraine is seeking are deployed with NATO allies in Europe. Those weapons could be transferred to Ukraine, with European countries buying replacements from the U.S.

“It’s a lot faster to move something, for example, from Germany to Ukraine than it is to order it from a (U.S.) factory and get it there,” Rubio told reporters during visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Trump is also facing calls from Republicans, Democrats and European allies to support legislation in the Senate that aims to cripple Russia’s oil industry and hit Moscow with U.S. sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine.

The legislation, in part, calls for a 500% tariff on goods imported from countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas, uranium and other exports. It would have an enormous impact on the economies of Brazil, China and India, which account for the vast majority of Russia’s energy trade.

“The big offender here is China, India and Brazil,” Graham said. “My goal is to end this war. And the only way you are going to end this war is to get people who prop up Putin — make them choose between the American economy and helping Putin.”

That revenue is critical in helping keep the Russian war machine humming. The U.S. and Europe have imposed significant import and export bans on a wide range of goods to and from Russia, affecting sectors like finance, energy, transport, technology and defense.

For months, Trump threatened, but held off on, imposing new sanctions against Russia’s oil industry. But he has become increasingly exasperated with Putin and has laid into the Russian leader for prolonging the war.

Congress has been prepared to act on the legislation, sponsored by Graham and Blumenthal, for some time.

The bill has overwhelming support in the Senate, but Republican leadership has been waiting for Trump to give the green light before moving ahead with it.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s security agency said Sunday that it tracked down and killed Russian agents suspected of shooting one of its senior officers to death in Kyiv, the capital.

The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said in a statement that the suspected Russian agents were killed in the Kyiv region after they offered resistance to arrest. A video released by the agency showed two bodies lying on the ground.

The agency said earlier that a man and a woman were suspected to be involved in Thursday’s assassination of Ivan Voronych, an SBU colonel, in a daylight attack that was caught on surveillance cameras.

Media reports claimed that Voronych was involved in covert operations in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine and reportedly helped organize Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region last year.