Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has first in-person sitdown with Ukrainian counterpart
The meeting, which took place in Poland, occurred after it became clear that Zaluzhnyi wouldn’t be able to attend a meeting on Wednesday of senior NATO military officials in Brussels, according to the Washington Post."Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley met with Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi today in Poland. This marks their first in-person meeting," Joint Staff spokesman Col. Dave Butler said in a readout.
The meeting occurred a day after a group of Pentagon and State Department officials met in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian officials. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, principal deputy national security adviser Jon Finer, and Undersecretary of Defense Colin Kahl met with Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, and Ukrenergo CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi. The intent of the meeting from the U.S.
These meetings are occurring as the U.S. is ramping up its training of Ukrainian forces. Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command's 7th Army Training Command began training roughly 500 Ukrainian troops over the weekend. It's taking place in Germany, and the goal is to get these service members back on the battlefield between one and two months from now.The Department of Defense will also be training Ukrainian forces on the Patriot Missile System at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
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