US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. File photoWASHINGTON, May 16. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin told Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov about his week-long contact with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Pentagon reports. «Minister Austin provided an update on his conversation with Shoigu May 13,» the Pentagon's press service said in a statement about the conversation between Austin and Reznikov. reported that Shoigu discussed by phone with the head of the Pentagon topical issues of international security, including the situation in Ukraine, the conversation took place at the initiative of the American side.
