Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will chair the Ramstein format contact group meeting scheduled for February 14 in Brussels, states Patrick Ryder, U.S. Department of Defence spokesman. “Separately, Secretary Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General C.Q. Brown, Jr. will travel to Brussels, Belgium next week to host an in-person meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on February 14. This will be the 19th meeting of the UDCG since Secretary Austin formed the international group in April 2022,” said the Pentagon spokesman. According to him, representatives from the U.S. Depa…