The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv in the first visit to Ukraine by a senior US official since congress passed a long-delayed $61 billion military aid package for the country last month.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv in the first visit to Ukraine by a senior US official since congress passed a long-delayed $61 billion military aid package for the country last month.
"The Secretary's mission here is really to talk about how our supplemental assistance is going to be executed in a fashion to help shore up their defences enable them to increasingly take back the initiative on the battlefield," the official said. Ukraine has been on the back foot on the battlefield for months as Russian troops have slowly advanced, mainly in the Donetsk region to the south, taking advantage of Ukraine's shortages of troop manpower and artillery shells.Russia's forces hold a significant advantage in manpower and munitions.
Russia's troops entered Ukraine near its second largest city of Kharkiv on Friday, opening a new, north-eastern front in a war that has for almost two years been largely fought in the east and south.
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