Russia-Ukraine war: Fate of Europe and global security being decided in Ukraine, Zelenskiy says– live
by Helen Livingstone (now); Dani Anguiano, Gloria Ola from World news | The Guardian on (#5YGSN)
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The visit of US secretary of state Antony Blinken and US defence secretary Lloyd Austin to Kyiv had been kept tightly under wraps in advance for security reasons. Some images from the meeting have been sent to us via the newswires.
The US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has just been speaking to the media at the Poland-Ukraine border. He has been meeting officials from Ukraine. He told reporters:
Our focus in the meeting was to talk about those things that would enable us to win the current battle and also build for tomorrow. We talked about security force assistance. And we talked about training.
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