Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said he believes Ukraine is 'making progress,' in the Kherson region of the country as they continue to counter Russia's invasion, adding there has been a 'kind of change in the battlefield dynamics.'
Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said he believes Ukraine is "making progress," in the Kherson region of the country as they continue to counter Russia's invasion, adding there has been a "kind of change in the battlefield dynamics."
When asked why the U.S. has not supplied longer-range weapons that Ukrainians have asked for, Austin said he communicates with his Ukrainian counterpart, Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov, "routinely," and believes the U.S. has been "very effective in providing them those things that are very, very effective on a battlefield."
"It's not just about the equipment that you have. It's about how you employ that equipment, how you synchronize things together to create battlefield effects that then can create opportunities," he said. "We saw a number of centreline crossings of the Taiwan Strait by their aircraft, and that number has increased over time. We've seen more activity with their surface vessels in the waters in and around Taiwan," Austin said.