U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks as he gives an address on the day of a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Wednesday that the United States and its allies would "impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression" if the war in Ukraine does not come to an end.
"If we must take this step, the U.S. War Department stands ready to do our part in ways that only the United States can do," Hegseth said at a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group of Kyiv's allies at NATO headquarters.
