US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will attend the next meeting of countries meeting to support Ukraine's self-defense (the Ramstein format) via video call, Defense News reports.
Earlier, a number of US and European officials expressed doubts that Hegseth would join the meeting.
The upcoming meeting will be held on Friday in Brussels under the chairmanship of Britain and Germany. European and US officials had wondered whether Hegseth would join in the weeks before, and last week some indicated that he might skip the meeting.
"Even joining via teleconference is better than passing altogether, multiple European officials said. Still, they would have preferred him to attend in person and broadly remain unsure of America’s commitment to supporting Ukraine and European defense as a whole," the publication notes.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is ready to buy a large package from the United States and is counting on it as a security guarantee. The state was ready to find "both 30 and 50 billion" for such a package.
Zelenskyy appealed to Ukraine's partners and called for the implementation of agreements on air defense, which have not been implemented.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said that he was "unpleasantly surprised" by the reaction of the US embassy, which did not use the word "Russian" when commenting on the strike on Kryvyi Rih.
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