The 22nd meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will be held virtually on May 20, hosted by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. from the Pentagon.
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The next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will be held virtually on Monday, May 20.
This will be the 22nd meeting of the UDCG since the international group was formed in April 2022.
They will join ministers of defense and chiefs of defense from nearly 50 nations to discuss Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
The 22nd meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will be held virtually on May 20, hosted by Lloyd J. Austin III and CQ Brown, Jr.
The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, stated that the priority of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine meeting will be air defense.
Lloyd Austin emphasized that the meeting would focus on air defense and the discussion of making eight coalitions of forces and means.
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