 Story from Reuters, the United States will soon announce more than $2.3 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart at the Pentagon. Austin also gave a nod to Ukraine's aspirations to eventually join NATO more than two years after Russia's full-scale invasion. At next week's NATO summit in Washington, D.C., Austin said we will take steps to build a bridge to NATO membership for Ukraine. He did not elaborate.