SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 – Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., are scheduled to host the 24th edition of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group tomorrow at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, the Pentagon announced today. The UDC...
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the American military's Ramstein Air Base, near Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, March 19, 2024. Thilo Schmuelgen | Reuters U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday will try and convince Euro...
Austin was speaking virtually at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which was formed in April 2022 to coordinate support for Ukraine and discuss developments in the war. Supporting Ukraine is "the right thing to do" and just standing by was "not an option" for "people of princ...
There are also questions as to whether there will be a future meeting of the 50-member Ukraine Defense Contact Group, or whether it will assume a new shape under one of its major European contributors, such as Germany. World & Nation Ukraine’s president calls Trump ‘st...
The gathering — created by Austin and known as the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — has been meeting about monthly for the past two years, but in recent sessions officials have expressed growing consternation over the U.S. gridlock. More than $20 billion in the aid bill is earmarked to ...
Stoltenberg, center, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown, right, speak with Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the format of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursd...
As CBS News national security correspondent Charlie D'Agata reported, the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the Ramstein Air Base came just days after Zelenskyy's nation suffered its single worst attack of the year, when two ballisticmissiles slammed into a military academy, k...
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Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on Tuesday that no decision had been taken for now to dismiss two senior military commanders. New Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov speaks to the media following the 15th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base on Septe...
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group is set to meet in Brussels on Feb. 14. Leaders should use this meeting to rally around a plan to deliver to Ukraine the Leopard 2 — and only the Leopard 2 — in the largest possible quantities as quickly as possible, including 150 tanks by this spring...