Pete Hegseth, the newly appointed US Secretary of Protection, is anticipated to attend a gathering of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (also referred to as the Ramstein Group) on 12 February in Brussels, which will probably be chaired by the UK.

Supply: Politico, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Hegseth, who’s travelling to Europe subsequent week, plans to attend a Ramstein assembly at NATO headquarters in Brussels, a US official and 4 different sources advised Politico.

The sources additionally consider that the US could return to chairing conferences of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group sooner or later, because it did beneath the Joe Biden administration.

As well as, Politico sources say that no new US army support packages will probably be introduced at Ramstein.

Earlier, it was formally introduced that UK Defence Secretary John Healey is convening the twenty sixth Ramstein assembly. It will likely be held at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, 12 February, within the afternoon.

The group will meet on the eve of the NATO defence ministers' assembly to debate priorities for Ukraine and assist to Ukraine in its combat towards the full-scale Russian invasion.

The US-led Ramstein format was established within the spring of 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to coordinate army help to Kyiv. It has introduced collectively greater than 50 nations.

On the eve of Donald Trump's return to the White Home, there have been issues that the brand new administration wouldn’t assist the Ramstein format as a lot because the Joe Biden administration did. It was even feared that the format would stop to exist in its earlier type.

The final assembly of the Ramstein format befell on 9 January. On the time, Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umierov stated that the subsequent assembly within the Ramstein format had already been agreed upon and was because of happen in February.

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