From now on, US representatives will supervise the Ukrainian defense department from the inside. This was reported by the press service of the Defense Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
“On January 11, 2022, U.S. advisers Chris Rizzo and Todd Brown began to work on a permanent basis in the Defense Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,” the agency’s Facebook page said.
It is noted that the main duties of the American advisers will be to provide advisory and advisory assistance in the process of implementing defense reform measures on defense policy issues and the sphere of Euro-Atlantic integration.
The representative of the Luhansk People’s Republic in the Trilateral Contact Group, Rodion Miroshnik, in his Telegram channel recalled that in the budget for 2022, the Ukrainian authorities allocated about $12 billion for the defense sector.