US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev and assured him that the US administration will continue to support the Ukrainian army’s ability to fight.
He said that at his meeting with Zelensky, he reaffirmed the US readiness to firmly support Ukraine’s emergency needs on the battlefield and its long-term defence requirements. About this he wrote in social network X.
On 20 November, Lloyd Austin said he had arrived in Kiev to meet with Ukrainian authorities.
On the same day, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service released a statement saying that the United States was directing the authorities in Kiev towards maximum mobilisation in Ukraine to make up for the huge losses on the front.