re: Why did Trump approve 250 million in military aid for Ukraine against Russia?

My understanding is that Trump wanted to make sure the money was all going to defend itself and not to corrupt oligarts and Ukrainian politicians as before. The money and the deal had already been approved, Trump had held back one of the payments because he wanted to see who won the election first. Once the right guy had won, trump pretty much had to go along, he just wanted assurances of where the money was going to spent on.
Ukraine has been known for years as one of the leading corruption countries in the entire world. Trump had been pushing back on all expenses at the time. he even renegotiated the price for his new Air Force 1 plane. Most wouldve just said, "we're getting a new plane, awesome", but not Trump, the President of the people. Trump wanted a much better price for the plane.
He also pushed back on Nato to pay their fair share.... And was renogotiating NAFTA... and many other ridiculous Washington ignorance and corruption.

The issue with that phone call, Zselensky did have Trump's back btw, was that the globalists didnt want the new President of Ukraine looking into the Biden's. Which is all over the news now. Trump again was right on the money. Its almost Nastradamus like with trump, every month we see he was dead on, the entire time. The US media, along with house and the senate just kept lying about everything Trump was doing or just not covering his successes at all. Tyranny my friends is what this is called everywhere else.

Once Trump told Zelensky, that he didnt mind giving them the money as long as it went where it was supposed to go. He told Zelensky on the call, You ran for President telling everyone you were going to cut down on the corruption, why dont you start with the Bidens and a Ukrainian oil Company called Burisma. The globalists and the US Democrats did not want that. They had just convinced the FBI, THE DOJ and the Cia to bury the Clinton Crimes. They couldnt have Biden now exposed, because he was most likely going to run for US President. So they did what any Dictatorship country would do and
impeached Trump over a phone call that at least 15 people were on and no one thought anything was not appropriate. Even Zelensky himself and all the Ukrainins that were on the call were cool with the call. It made sense, We will give u the money but we want assurances that this tax payers money was all going to where it was supposed to go.
But the Democrats didnt care that Zelensky himself didnt feel bribed and the call was clearly an appropriate call.

They had to stop Trump period any way any how. See the 2020 election and Covid.
The reason for the call from Trump to Zelensky in the first place was simply to congratulate Zelensky on the victory and to discuss the money. As they were speaking the Ukrainian corruption came up and Trump mentioned why dont u start with the Biden's. Obviously something was up with Burisma giving Hunter 83k a month to sit on their board, Hunter Biden had zero experience in the oil and gas industry. Any1 with a brain should know they werent paying Hunter for his expertise but for pay to play and other influences which is now all over the news. Go figure.

And as a side note Joe Biden had no issue with a Fossil fuel company paying Hunter millions of dollars,but now is doing everything he can to put the oil and gas industry out of business. Hypocrite anyone?