U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine to discuss military aid with Ukraine’s president.
The visit, which saw the senior U.S. officials meet with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Kuleba as well as the country's defense and interior ministers, saw both sides discuss the U.S.' continued"security assistance, economic assistance and humanitarian assistance" for Ukraine, one senior official said in a background briefing on the visit.Firstly, that President Biden will formally nominate Bridget Brink, currently the U.S.' ambassador to Slovakia to be the next U.S.
Russia is planning a staged referendum in Kherson, Ukraine, to justify its occupation, the British defense ministry said in an intelligence update. The ministry noted that Russia previously held a"illegitimate referendum" in Crimea in 2014 to retrospectively legitimize the accession of the peninsula into the country.
It came as Ukraine pressed the West for more powerful weapons against Russia's campaign in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where Moscow's forces sought to dislodge the last Ukrainian troops in the battered port of Mariupol. "You can't come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,'' he said.People walk along a street near residential buildings destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 22, 2022.
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