The April 11 meeting will mark the first time the coalition will gather without America’s secretary of defense participating.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Germany for a final meeting with allies on Ukraine aid. The next time the group gathers, things will look very different — if it meets at all. Formed in the ...

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Pete Hegseth’s predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but he has given up leadership.

It's the first in-person gathering of the group of 50 countries organizing aid for Ukraine that didn't have the U.S. defense ...

Peace is out of reach for Ukraine due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing aggression, the defense ministers of the ...

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The Ukraine Defense Contact Group is a summit of 50 countries that have met for the last three years to coordinate military aid for Kyiv. Lloyd Austin, Hegseth’s predecessor, founded the group s ...

stayed away from a meeting in Brussels on April 11th of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, a gathering of 50-odd countries ...

which was founded by former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in 2022 after Russia’s invasion as a way for dozens of countries to streamline the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine to ...

Is Russia’s military truly crippled, or does its “quantity over quality” approach to manning and equipment suggest it can ...