Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and defense leaders from Europe and around the world met to coordinate more military aid to Ukraine as it tries to hold off a Russian offensive while launching its own assault on the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula.
By Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp, Associated PressDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. take part in a press briefing at the Pentagon on Monday, May 20, 2024, in Washington.
“We’re meeting in a moment of challenge,” Austin said, noting that Russia’s new onslaught on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, showed why the commitment was vital. Austin vowed to keep U.S. weapons moving “week after week.” Speaking alongside Austin, Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that while there are no plans now to put U.S. trainers back into Ukraine to work with Ukrainian forces, the U.S. could do that after the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a visit to China that Moscow’s offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but there are no plans to capture the city. In the four weeks since President Joe Biden signed the $95 billion foreign aid package, which included about $61 billion for Ukraine, the U.S. has sent $1.4 billion in weapons pulled from Pentagon stockpiles and announced it was providing $6 billion in funding through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. USAI pays for longer-term contracts with the defense industry and means that the weapons could take many months or years to arrive.
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