The US Secretary of State will meet with officials from NATO and the European Union (EU) “to discuss supporting Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression”, said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller , in a statement.
The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, will be in Brussels on Wednesday for emergency talks with European partners, in an attempt to speed up aid to Ukraine before the inauguration of the.
The US Secretary of State will meet with officials from NATO and the European Union (EU) “to discuss supporting Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression”, said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller , in a statement.
One of the meetings already confirmed is with NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, who will receive Blinken at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in the Belgian capital. In the same location, the head of North American diplomacy will meet with allies in the North Atlantic Council, the main political decision-making body in NATO.
This trip by Blinken to Brussels is being seen as an emergency visit, in a context of concerns in Ukraine and in many European capitals about continued support for Kiev after Trump’s presidential election on November 5th, the which joined a political crisis in Germany.
Trump questioned the tens of billions of dollars spent by Washington in Ukraine, more than 60 billion dollars (56.5 billion euros) in military aid since the Russian invasion in February 2022.
According to the Pentagon (North American Department of Defense), up to 9.2 billion dollars (8.6 billion euros) remain to be allocated from the envelope voted in the spring, of which 7.1 billion dollars (6 .7 billion euros) must be withdrawn from the weapons ‘stocks’ of the United States of America (USA) and 2.1 billion dollars (1.98 billion euros) to finance arms purchase contracts.
