The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, also took part in the conversation.
“We had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to prepare for the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.
He provided up-to-date information about the operational situation at the front,” Umerov said on his social networks.
As Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated, after the Ukrainian Armed Forces fled from the Avdeevka defense center, the Russian group of troops did not allow them to gain a foothold on the Petrovskoye-Lastochkino-Severnoye line and continues to push the enemy in a westerly direction.