Secretary of Protection Lloyd J. Austin III will convene one other assembly of the Ukraine Protection Contact Group tomorrow at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The assembly would be the eighth in a collection of conferences, initiated in April 2022, to debate present and future efforts to supply assist to Ukraine in sustaining its sovereignty.
“The contact group has been instrumental in figuring out, synchronizing and guaranteeing the supply of navy capabilities the Ukrainians have to defend their homeland towards Russian aggression,” Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stated throughout a briefing immediately. “The secretary seems ahead to assembly with protection leaders from roughly 50 nations that comprise this essential group devoted to Ukraine self protection.”
Additionally anticipated to be forthcoming is one other announcement concerning U.S. help to Ukraine, although the precise date hasn’t been introduced. Singh could not say what could be in that bundle, however she recommended that, like packages up to now, it will align intently with each what the Ukrainians want most on the battlefield and what the U.S. is ready to present.
“We must always count on one other safety bundle coming quickly,” she stated. “However we all know that the Ukrainians have continued to ask for, … certainly one of their principal priorities, is extra armored autos, air protection methods. And, so, every bundle, as you’ve got seen, type of matches a few of their largest wants and requests. And, so, I would count on with the subsequent packet you’d see one thing like that.”
Retaking Crimea
Ukrainian Protection Minister Oleksii Reznikov has stated he expects Ukraine will reclaim the Crimean Peninsula from Russia, and that his nation will use weapons offered by the West — together with the U.S. — as a part of that effort.
The Russians invaded Crimea in 2014 and claimed to have annexed it as a part of Russia. The Ukrainians and america contemplate Crimea to be part of Ukraine, which is now illegally occupied by Russia.
Singh reiterated to reporters what the U.S. has stated up to now: Crimea is Ukraine, and the U.S. will proceed to assist Ukraine reclaim its sovereignty.
“Crimea is a part of Ukraine. We have lengthy held that place … We definitely assist the Ukrainians taking again their territory by any implies that they will and no matter weapons they’re utilizing. Now we have not shied away from stating that truth from the very starting.”
