Zelensky: Blinken And Austin Will Visit Kyiv Tomorrow

Bloomberg News reports:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin would visit Kyiv on Sunday, in what would be a risky show of support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion.

“Tomorrow people from the U.S. are coming, I will meet the defense minister and the secretary of state, Mr. Blinken,” Zelenskiy told reporters on Saturday. “I think, we will be waiting when security will allow the president of the U.S. to come and support Ukraine’s people.”

The visits, if confirmed, would be the first by top U.S. officials to Ukraine’s capital since Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24. In March, Blinken briefly met with Ukraine’s foreign minister at the Ukraine-Polish border.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is expecting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to visit Sunday in what would be the highest-level visit by an American delegation since the start of the war. https://t.co/daNADRlMhK

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