US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Kyiv in the first visit to Ukraine by a senior US official since the US Congress passed a long-delayed $61bn military aid package for the country last month.
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.Yesterday, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US was trying to accelerate"the tempo of the deliveries" of weapons to Ukraine to help it reverse its disadvantage.
The advance could draw some of Ukraine's depleted forces away from the east, where Russia has been advancing.Economic and political reforms being undertaken by Ukraine will pave the way for the country to join the European Union and eventually NATO, the official said.
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