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Ukraine Offensive Will Push Through Winter, U.S. Defense Chief Says
The “deliberate cruelty” of Russia’s latest bombardment has made the West more determined to help Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said.

BRUSSELS — Ukraine will remain on the offensive through the winter, retaking more ground lost to the Russian invasion, the U.S. secretary of defense predicted on Wednesday, adding that the United States and its allies would supply Ukraine with whatever weapons and supplies it needed for “the difficult weeks, months and years ahead.”

“I expect that Ukraine will continue to do everything it can throughout the winter to regain its territory and to be effective on the battlefield, and we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that they have what’s required to be effective,” Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said after a meeting in Brussels of top military officials from some 50 countries aiding Ukraine.