The boss of the American defense Hegseth in the boycott of the Ukrainian military support summit for the first time for the first time

The Secretary in the United States of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will not attend the next Ukrainian Support Planning Conference next week, a decision that will leave the main forum of the Western Nation to coordinate military support and security in Ukraine without the director of the Pentagon present for the very first time, the American Defense magazine reported on Thursday.

The talks planning the production and delivery of weapons, training and military intelligence for Ukraine will be jointly chaired by Germany and Great Britain. Whether or not it is a representative of the US Department of Low Level Defense will be present during a rally scheduled for April 11 of senior defense officials in 50 countries in Brussels, the report.

Great Britain has resumed the presidency of planning meetings, called the Ukrainian Defense Coordination Group (UDCG), the United States for the first time in February. Hegseth, before and after his appointment as a defense secretary, said that the money spent by the United States to support Ukraine to defend himself was, in his opinion, mainly wasted.

Since the Russian invasion on a large scale, the UDCG, in 26 meetings to date, has allocated some $ 126 billion in security and military aid to Ukraine, most NATO states contributing a little more than half and the United States. European financial assistance in Ukraine has been delivered and promised is about twice that of the United States, the data compiled by the Kiel Research Institute said.

The United States Defense Express report plans to jump, or, as much as possible, send a low-level representative to a UDCG planning meeting came into the heel of an advertisement of the European Union of April 2 that it, as expected, would pay a third payment of almost 3.5 billion euros ($ 3.8 billion) to Ukraine as a social support.

European funds, in a mixture of subsidies and loans, help the Ukraine’s money war government with funding for reparation for damage caused by Russian air, drones and missile strikes, upgrades to Ukrainian infrastructure and the wages of government employees doing this and other works.

The money is paid through a European Commission fund called Ukraine Facility, which allocates up to 50 billion euros ($ 54.8 billion) from 2024 to 2027 in Ukraine for financial and stabilization support.

Support in the United States in Ukraine has been unstable and sometimes permanent, without American heavy weapons delivered by the United States to Ukraine until the third month of the war on a large scale, and a total American military support for Ukraine from December 2023 to May 2024 due to the budgetary importance of the Congress.

The most recent judgment of support in kyiv took place in March 2025 following a public argument of February 28 at the White House between the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the US vice-president JD Vance on the alleged insufficient gratitude of Ukraine in the United States. Washington also cut military information in kyiv, making certain high -tech American manufacturing weapons deployed by the Ukrainian army to fight ineffective.

Zelensky, in the comments of March 28, said that European financial support for the Ukrainian government was being expanded for Ukraine to EU military information, military deposits and licenses for the production of air defense systems.

“It was a European initiative. It will be extended. Ukraine will have better access to intelligence information. And certain associated technologies so that our European colleagues have available. We have also agreed with some of our European colleagues to access their military arsenals for ammunition. And we agreed on the licenses for the production of air defense systems. And we will also work (product). Production in Ukraine of several types of military drones and missiles, “said Zelensky in the comments of March 28.

The head of the European Union foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, in Thursday’s comments at the Warsaw media, said that the Alliance currently provided more than half of Ukrainian artillery ammunition, around two million shells of all types, and that the commercial group was advancing with plans to accelerate production.

Kallas, on March 17, proposed an urgent military aid package that would deliver to Ukrainian arms, ammunition and other types of assistance worth 40 billion euros ($ 44 billion). The initiative is widely supported in the commercial group, she said.

“First, on Ukraine, there is a broad political support for a defense initiative of 40 billion euros. Of course, the discussion is currently in detail,” Kallas said in the comments reported by Brussels Media. “Everyone has understood around the table that we should really show our determination right now and support Ukraine so that they can defend themselves.”

In addition to the Ukrainian aid managed by the EU, the member states of the Atlantic Atlantic also moved independently to fill an expected end of the deliveries of American weapons to Kyiv also.

Officials of the new NATO member in Sweden on March 26 said that Stockholm will transfer 16.5 billion Kronor ($ 1.7 billion) of military equipment and equipment in Ukraine in 2025.

The Swedish counterpart of Hegseth, Pål Jonson, in comments on local media, said that $ 465 million would go to the Multinational Ukrainian Defense Contact Group to finance weapons purchases and military support for Ukraine. The support package also includes the material of the Swedish armed forces and spare parts worth $ 93 million, as well as M / 58 machine guns, ammunition, 100 vehicles of different types and maintenance equipment of the air base. At least $ 46 million will be for direct purchases of Swedish military manufacturers for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said Jonson.

The Swedish military kit is very well evaluated by AFU service personnel. The best known is the Swedish CV-90 infantry combat vehicle, a popular armored staff carrier because of its powerful cannon, its excellent sensors, its good cross-country capacity and its damaged armor offering good crew protection. The self-propelled belly by Archer Systems AB AB and the guided anti-tank missile of Nlaw Saab-Bofors are also well known in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (ZSU) for reliability and lethality.

Initially, a supporter of very hesitant Ukraine, only willing to send protective headsets and first aid kits, Germany by mid-2014 had become the largest supplier of Ukraine weapons and weapons after the United States. The Berlin assistance plan for 2025 has more than doubled the total value of deliveries and aid sent to Ukraine by Germany ($ 4.5 billion) from 2022 to 2024, a statement from the presidential office of Zelensky said.

On Monday, German officials announced that Ukraine would receive a value of 3.3 billion dollars in military support during 2025. Assistance, made public after meetings between Zelensky and German Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock in kyiv, will understand the categories of weapons that Zelensky has described national defense since the war: and artillery ammunition.

Some Ukrainian military media have hypothesized that the comments of Baerbock and Zelensky on air defense systems at the end of March could mean that Ukraine had received a green light to develop the production of Iris-T anti-T missiles from Germany and perhaps launch systems, but there was no external confirmation. Iris-T is a weapon of high-tech and short to medium that has performed well against Russian inhabited planes, drones and cruise missiles.

According to German statements from the Ministry of Defense, Germany has provided 11 IRIS-T systems to Ukraine and plans to deliver up to 17 additional systems once they are manufactured.

In January, Germany and Ukraine signed an agreement for the delivery of six new IRIS-T systems in Ukraine in 2025, as well as 13 Gépard anti-aircraft combat dogs, 20 vehicles to combat infantry walking, last 22 Rch-155, Leopard 1A5, and an unpertured quantity of the advertising of military information from Germany, the defense of military information from the defense of Ukrainian military information.