The US invited about twenty allied countries to a military meeting on Ukraine at the German base in Ramstein

The United States convened about twenty countries to a military meeting on the situation in Ukraine to be held next Tuesday at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Department of Defense spokesman Jack Kirby explained that he has invited some 40 countries to this conference, but he has not specified which countries are invited, nor is the list of those who have confirmed their presence known following the invitation of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

It is known that among the invited countries there are nations that are not members of NATO and that the meeting does not have the signature of the Atlantic Alliance.

Kirby explained earlier that the objective of the meeting is the long-term sovereignty and security of Ukraine and will therefore focus on Ukraine's defensive needs beyond the current war.

In addition, Kirby stressed that the fact that more than 20 countries have already confirmed their presence in such a short time is a sign of the importance that the United States and these countries attach to Ukraine's defensive needs.

Just this week Washington announced a new $800 million military aid package for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that the Russian invasion is intended “as a beginning” and that Moscow intends to “capture other countries” in the face of recent claims by the Russian Armed Forces about the Moldavian region of Transnistria.

“With reference to the Russian Army, news spread that its task is now supposedly to establish control over southern Ukraine and reach the border with Moldova. And allegedly there, in Moldova, the rights of Russian speakers are violated,” explained the Ukrainian president in reference to the words of Rustam Minnekaev, commander of the Central District of the Army.

Zelensky replied that it is Russian territory that “should take care of the rights of Russian speakers”, since in Russia there is “no freedom of speech” or “freedom of choice”. “There is simply no right to dissent,” he said, adding that in the country “poverty prospers” and “human life is worthless.”

“All nations who, like us, believe in the victory of life over death, must fight with us. They have to help us, because we are the first on this path. And who's next? ”, asked the Ukrainian president.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to deter attacks by Russian invaders in the east and south of our country. In the direction of Izium, in the Donbas, in Priazovia, in Mariupol (or) the region of Kherson are the places where the fate of this war and the future of our State are decided,” he said.

Zelensky also explained that in places like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk or in Popasna and Kharkiv, located in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, “the occupiers are trying to achieve a primitive goal”, which is to “kill as much as possible and destroy everything they can”.

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