Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on October 12 during his visit to Georgia that the South Caucasus nation deserves to obtain European Union candidate status, adding that Hungary was “disappointed” by the EU's refusal to grant Georgia the status last year.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced work with allies on "coalitions of opportunity" for military support of Ukraine, along the lines of those created to transfer Leopard tanks to Kyiv and train pilots on F-16 fighters.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov held substantive talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd James Austin on the sidelines of Ramstein on the needs of Ukrainian forces at the front and security guarantees for Ukraine.
At the meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein" format in Germany, Estonia, Luxembourg and Ukraine have created an IT coalition that will support the Ukrainian Defense Forces of Ukraine in the cyber sphere, the Estonian Defense Ministry reports.