U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder acknowledged during an official briefing on Nov. 1st that active-duty U.S. military personnel are not only deployed inside of Ukraine, but are operating far away from the U.S. embassy in Kyiv.
The day before, an unnamed U.S. Department of Defense official said at a background briefing that “U.S. personnel resumed on-site inspections to assess weapon stocks” in Ukraine.

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