Blinken due to meet Zelenskiy in first wartime visit by top US officials to Ukraine
by Luke Harding in Kyiv and Lorenzo Tondo, with agenc from World news | The Guardian on (#5YG2H)
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin will join secretary of state in Sunday's meeting as Russia continues attacks in south and east Ukraine
Kyiv prepared for its first wartime visit from two top US officials as Russia continued its bombardment of Ukraine, including a deadly strike in the port city of Odesa, that all but buried hopes of a truce for Orthodox Easter.
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he would meet with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin, in Kyiv on Sunday. The White House declined to comment.
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