U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday (June 15) met with Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov in Brussels, as NATO defence ministers are set to meet for talks in the Belgian capital, Reuters reports.
The Secretary-General of the military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, told a news conference earlier in the day that a NATO summit in Madrid later this month is expected to agree an assistance package for Ukraine that will help the country with the move from old Soviet-era weaponry to NATO standard gear.
He also said that members of the alliance will continue to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons and long-range systems and that he expected them to agree a new package of assistance to Kyiv at the summit.
