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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukraine Defense Meeting

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy open the 16th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Oct. 11, 2023. The leaders were joined ministers of defense and senior military officials from nearly 50 nations to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the continued close coordination by the international community to provide the Ukrainian people with the means necessary to defend their sovereign territory.

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