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Zelensky Suggests A Meeting With Putin ‘To End The War’
NEAR THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER (AP) — After a secrecy-shrouded visit to Ukraine’s capital, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims and “Ukraine is succeeding.”
VIDEO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Kyiv.
It is the first time that such high-level US officials have travelled to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in late February pic.twitter.com/0eSAZBTn92
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 25, 2022
The trip by Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was the highest-level American visit to Kyiv since Russia invaded in late February. Blinken and Austin told Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy and his advisers the U.S. would provide more than $300 million in foreign military financing and had approved a $165 million sale of ammunition.
Blinken told reporters Monday near the Polish-Ukrainian border the U.S. “had an opportunity to demonstrate directly” its “strong ongoing support” for Ukraine. Blinken says the meeting with the Ukrainians lasted three hours.
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