{"id":69842,"date":"2025-04-02T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/04\/02\/in-first-hegseth-to-skip-multinational-meeting-on-ukraine-support\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:21:27","slug":"in-first-hegseth-to-skip-multinational-meeting-on-ukraine-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2025\/04\/02\/in-first-hegseth-to-skip-multinational-meeting-on-ukraine-support\/","title":{"rendered":"In first, Hegseth to skip multinational meeting on Ukraine support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pete Hegseth will not attend a gathering of 50 countries to coordinate military support for Ukraine, multiple European officials and a U.S. official said \u2014 the first time the coalition will gather without America\u2019s secretary of defense participating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group will meet April 11 in Brussels and will be chaired by Germany and Britain. Hegseth attended the last meeting in February, though he became the first U.S. defense secretary in the coalition\u2019s 26 meetings not to lead it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hegseth won\u2019t join in person and isn\u2019t expected to join virtually either, according to a U.S. official, who like others was granted anonymity to discuss the planning. In fact, the Pentagon is unlikely to send any senior representatives, which typically join the secretary on such trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States is still assessing how its officials will participate in the various forums that support Ukraine, including those that help manage security assistance and training, the U.S. official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Europeans, the secretary\u2019s absence is the latest sign of the Trump administration\u2019s lower-priority approach to arming Ukraine \u2014 a point Hegseth made clear at the last meeting in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/4066734\/secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-press-conference-following-nato-ministers-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">In a speech from Brussels<\/a>, Hegseth scolded European officials, urging them to take more control of their own defense rather than relying on America\u2019s 75-year role helping defend the continent. He also ruled out the possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine before the administration had itself made a decision on the topic \u2014 something the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called a \u201crookie mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPresident [Donald] Trump will not allow anyone to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sucker,\u201d Hegseth said, referring to a quote from former president Dwight D. Eisenhower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hegseth\u2019s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, founded the Ukraine Defense Contact Group shortly after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022. Since then, the group has helped raise and coordinate <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2025\/Jan\/09\/2003626079\/-1\/-1\/1\/KEY-ACHIEVEMENTS-AND-FACTS-US-SECURITY-ASSISTANCE-TO-UKRAINE.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">more than $126 billion in security aid<\/a> to Ukraine, around half of which has come from America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the three years since, the group became synonymous both with Ramstein Air Base, where it was founded, and U.S. leadership. The only time Austin did not attend one of the group\u2019s in-person meetings was early 2024, when he was recovering from complications following cancer treatment. Instead, he called into the summit and had Celeste Wallander, a top Pentagon policy official, convene the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sensing the U.S. may step back from its role, European officials were already planning for alternate formats when the group last gathered during the Biden administration, Wallander said in an interview. One of the arrangements discussed was for Germany and the United Kingdom to take the lead, representing Europe\u2019s economic powerhouse and one of its most capable militaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the Ukraine group could continue meeting without U.S. leadership, Wallander said, there would be real costs. American defense officials, along with military counterparts from U.S. European Command, have typically led briefings on the state of the war and how it relates to Ukraine\u2019s battlefield needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without them, the group would lack key U.S. intelligence, something European officials are already preparing for. In late February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/02\/28\/trump-berates-ukrainian-president-says-hes-not-ready-for-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\">after a disastrous visit to the Oval office by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>, the U.S. stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine and paused weapons deliveries for a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon has $3.85 billion left in authority to send Ukraine military equipment, but no money left to replace it. 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