As America walks away from helping Ukraine, Europe is stepping up.
From: Kyiv Post by Stefan Korshak
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not attend the next top-level Ukraine support planning conference next week, a move that will leave the main Western nation forum for coordinating military and security support to Ukraine without the Pentagon’s director in attendance for the very first time, the US-based Defense News magazine reported Thursday.
The talks planning production and delivery of arms, training, and military intelligence for Ukraine will be jointly chaired by Germany and Britain. Whether or not a low-level US Defense Department representative will be present at a scheduled April 11 gathering of senior defense officials from 50 countries in Brussels isn’t clear, the report said.
Britain took over chairmanship of the planning meetings, called the Ukrainian Defense Coordination Group (UDCG), from the US for the first time in February. Hegseth, both before and after his appointment as defense secretary, said that money spent by the US to support Ukraine to defend itself was, in his view, mostly wasted.
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