The next meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine (Ramstein format) will be held on January 9, 2025, Radio Liberty reported on Friday.

The relevant information was also confirmed on Suspilne. The meeting will be held at the Ramstein Airbase in Germany. It will be hosted by U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

At the end of December 2024, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, after a telephone conversation with his Portuguese counterpart, Nun Mel, announced a meeting in the Ramstein format in January 2025.

As reported, U.S. President Joe Biden initiated the first meeting of the leaders of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine in Germany on October 12.

However, the meeting was postponed after Biden stated that he could not participate in it due to the devastating hurricane in his country. After that, the White House announced that U.S. President Joe Biden would hold a virtual meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense at the leadership level in November 2024.

On October 30, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that a meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine at the Ramstein base would be held in the coming weeks.

The last 24th meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine was held at the Ramstein airbase in Germany on September 6.