
The international coalition coordinating security assistance efforts for Ukraine, now led by the U.K. and Germany, has pledged a “record boost” of $23.7 billion in new weapons aid for Kyiv. The update followed the latest Ukraine Defense Contract Group meeting on April 11 at NATO headquarters in Brussels, with the U.S. not announcing new security assistance plans and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth participating virtually in the meeting. “Given Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine, we must concede [that] peace in Ukraine…