{"id":142268,"date":"2024-10-21T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-secretary-defense-ukraine-visit-air-defense\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:55:52","slug":"us-secretary-of-defense-arrives-in-ukraine-focused-on-air-defense-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=142268","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary Of Defense Arrives In Ukraine: Focused On Air Defense Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J Austin III, arrived in Ukraine today to meet with Ukrainian leaders and reassure continued US support for the country has it continues to battle the Russian invasion.             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"52383\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\"  >Ukraine<\/a><\/span> is now slowly taking delivery of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58722\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-16\/\"  >F-16<\/a><\/span> fighter jets that are now helping to         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030648\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/ukraine-f-16-advanced-counter-measures-pods-enhanced-defense\/\" >provide air defense against Russian drones and missiles<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Austin is in Ukraine on an unannounced visit to reassure Ukraine of continued US assistance in its fight against Russian aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,341,10938,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-ukraine","category-ukrainian-air-force","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142269,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142268\/revisions\/142269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}