US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Brown will head to Ramstein, Germany, next Monday, to attend the regular meeting of Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
In a statment, US Department of Defense stated that the meeting is the twentieth meeting of the “Ukrainian Defense Contact Group” since Austin formed the international group in April 2022.
According to the statement; Austin and Brown will join defense ministers and senior military officials from nearly 50 countries to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and continued close coordination by the international community to provide the Ukrainian people with the means to defend their sovereign territory.