The Defense secretary's absence marks the first time in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s history that a Pentagon chief misses the monthly meeting.

In a first for the US, the Pentagon chief will not attend a meeting of the group orchestrating military support to Ukraine, a ...

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not attend Wednesday’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Politico reported.. Hegseth also won’t join the meeting ...

His absence is the latest in a series of steps that Washington has taken to distance itself from Ukraine's efforts to repel Russia's full-scale invasion, which began on Feb. 24, 2022.

The emphasis should be on U.S.-made Patriot systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskky told a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels ... to make good on past pledges. His ...

Hegseth took advantage of this absence and delivered the Trump administration ... domestic product (GDP)— the new spending goal for NATO members in Europe. Pentagon policy chief Elbridge ...

Hegseth’s office cited scheduling concerns as the reason for his absence from the meeting, though the defense secretary will be in Brussels on Thursday for a different NATO meeting.