Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Tuesday met with the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valery Zaluzhny, at an undisclosed location in Poland near the Ukrainian border.
The highly symbolic meeting marked the first time the two military leaders held in-person talks. Col. David Butler, a US military spokesman, told The Washington Post Milley and Zaluzhny spent a few hours together.
The meeting was arranged after it became clear Zaluzhny would not be able to attend a NATO meeting in Brussels that’s scheduled for Wednesday. Milley made the trip after visiting Ukrainian troops in Germany as they started a new expanded US training program, another symbolic trip by the highest-ranking US military officer.
Butler said Milley wanted to discuss the training program and Germany and also Ukraine’s military needs, but no other details of the meeting were provided.
About 100 Ukrainian troops also arrived in Oklahoma this week to begin training on the Patriot air defense missile systems, the first such program being held on US soil. Both training programs and Milley’s meeting with Zaluzhny reflect Washington’s ever-growing involvement in the war, and the Biden administration shows no sign of looking to de-escalate despite the risks of provoking Moscow.
Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin are set to attend a meeting at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany known as the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Austin has led the meeting since the war began, and military officials from about 50 countries usually participate.
More aid from NATO countries is expected to be announced at the meeting, as well as a new weapons package from the Pentagon. The meeting comes after Britain pledged to send its Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, and more NATO countries could announce this week that they are also sending tanks.
Why is every high ranking Ukrnian official last name start with a Z? Are all the ABC last name jailed for political opposition?
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Analyze it, you’ll find out why.
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Gen. Milley Meets Top Ukrainian Commander in Poland It was the first time the two military leaders met face-to-face”
Mr. Milley Vanilly wants to understand white rage. He will soon find out what it is when the Ukrainian conscripts turn on Zelensky!
remember when US lured iran’s top general Suleimani to iraq and then surprised him with an assassin missile
This can not end well for NATO, what a debacle. Poland a war monger having their eyes on Ukrainian territory, they are not friends for nothing. Germany an ally with the biggest American Air Base Ramstein outside the US, NEARBY THE BIGGEST MILITARY HOSPITAL OUTSIDE THE US, Drones all over the ME are controlled from Ramstein, Ukrainian troops training in Germany, my guess is the big Grafenwoehr training area, some 30 or 40 thousand US troops stationed in Germany, all the refugees coming to Germany and the US pipeline sabotage and the deliberate destruction of the German and EU economy and the demand to deliver weapons to Ukraine, that can not end well, such political contradiction can not end well. What is Germany, an ally or the biggest enemy, can it get any crazier? Germany is not a sovereign state, they are being kicked around like a door- mat. They should kick Biden in the A** and tell him and his neocons to get lost, what does Germany have to lose? They need a new government and kick the CIA and the traitors in government out of the country first. Germany and the continent have nothing in common with the USA.
I am very cynical in my dotage. So much of this looks like clearing out old military inventory in order to clear space for the new, at the expense of, well, EVERYONE. That said, a parasite does what a parasite does, and being host to the capitalist war-machine wasp-larvae may just be our collective fate. I am rooting for the raccoons to somehow survive and take another shot at sentience. 😉
NATO placed a big ammunition order some few years ago making civilian ammunition scarce due to hoarders and expensive too due to hoarders. I don’t like hoarders.