NATO Reaches Agreement to Shift Some Ukraine Aid, Training Away From US

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have reached a new agreement to shift some of the responsibility for security assistance and training for Ukrainian forces more broadly across the Western alliance. The United States has, in recent years been the leading NATO member handling security assistance and training for Ukraine’s military, particularly as it contends with a war on its eastern front with Russia. Much of the assistance for Ukraine has been coordinated through the Pentagon-run Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG). The new agreement, announced by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday, would establish a new Ukraine aid coordinating center in Wiesbaden, Germany. The new plan doesn’t close out the Pentagon-led UDCG, but instead works as a compliment to the existing Pentagon-led coordinating office....