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The United States expects that the recent talks between US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe will lead to future conversations, Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby said. ...
The Defense Department is assured that all the provided US military equipment to Ukraine would arrive where it is supposed to and would be used accordingly, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday. ...
The United States will not be present on the ground or in the air to assist with the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, a senior Defense Department official said on Thursday. ...
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters he mistakenly said in a previous briefing that the allies provided Ukraine with whole aircraft, the Defense Department said. ...
Ukraine has received additional aircraft and spare parts to increase their fleet size amid the conflict with Russia, US Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby said on Tuesday (local time). ...
US President Joe Biden has no plans to visit Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Monday (local time). ...