U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will on Tuesday try to convince Ukraine and other European allies that President Joe Biden's administration is still committed to supporting Kyiv, even as Washington's funds run too low for it to be able to do so.
Austin will be leading the Ukraine defense contact group meeting at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Tuesday, with representatives from Ukraine and around 50 allied countries attending.
In other news, Moldova's foreign ministry said it had summoned the Russian ambassador, and had expelled another Russian diplomat, after polling stations were opened in the breakaway region of Transnistria during the Russian presidential election.