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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the United States will continue to provide support to the International Criminal Court as it investigates crimes committed in Ukraine, even though Washington disagrees with the ICC prosecutor's decision to seek arrest warrants for Israel's prime minister and defense minister. SOUNDBITE
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin vows that Washington increasing military support for Israel following the Hamas attack will not drain aid away from Ukraine as it continues battling Russia. "The United States will remain able to project power and to direct resources to tackle crises in multiple theatres. So we will stand firmly with Israel as we continue to support Ukraine," states Lloyd Austin after a meeting of Ukraine's backers at NATO headquarters in Brussels. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope that a successful offensive by Ukraine would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending its invasion. "Success in the counteroffensive would do two things -- it would strengthen its position at any negotiating table that emerges, and it may have the effect as well of actually causing Putin to finally focus on negotiating an end to the war that he started," Blinken tells a joint news conference with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. SOUNDBITE
International support for Ukraine remains "strong and true" more than a year into Kyiv's battle against invading Russian forces, says US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at a meeting of dozens of Kyiv's supporters at the Ramstein air base in Germany. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says "we can all do more", responding to a German journalist's question about whether or not Germany was doing enough to show real leadership in Europe, at the end of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting, at Ramstein Air Base. SOUNDBITE
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