WASHINGTON Nov 5 US creates new Aid Group in Germany Ukraine, which will oversee arms supplies to that country in the long term, Pentagon Deputy Press Officer Sabrina Singh said on Friday.
I am pleased to announce today that the Department of Defense will create a Ukraine Assistance Group, which we will call SAGU. It will be a dedicated headquarters component in Wiesbaden, Germany, under the leadership of the US European Command and will serve to coordinate our efforts,» Singh said during a press conference.
A Pentagon spokeswoman noted that the new headquarters The apartment will allow the United States «to continue to provide support to Ukraine in the long term.»
Russia launched a military special operation in Ukraine on February 24th. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass.
Earlier, Russia sent a note to NATO countries due to arms supplies to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect.