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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia is failing in its war aims 

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The US secretary of state Antony Blinken has been speaking at the Poland-Ukraine border about his meeting in Kyiv with US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and officials from Ukraine including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba. Blinken told the media:

We had the opportunity to demonstrate directly our strong ongoing support for the Ukrainian government and for the Ukrainian people. This was, in our judgment, an important moment to be there. An important moment for Ukraine, for the war. An important moment to have face-to-face conversations in detail about the extraordinary support that we’ve provided – security, economic, humanitarian – as well as the massive pressure that we’ve been exerting on Russia, and then to talk in detail about how we carry that forward across all of those fronts.

I would say that, without putting words in his mouth, President Zelenskiy expressed a deep appreciation for President Biden’s leadership and for the incredible generosity and support of the American people. In turn, we expressed deep admiration for his leadership and for the extraordinary courage of Ukrainians in standing up to and pushing back this Russian aggression.

We had an opportunity as well to talk about where this goes from here. With the success that Ukraine has had, it’s also true that Russia continues to try to brutalise parts of the country. And the death and destruction that we continue to see is horrific.

But Ukrainians are standing up. They’re standing strong. And they’re doing that with the support that we have coordinated from literally around the world. The strategy that we’ve put in place, massive support for Ukraine, massive pressure against Russia, solidarity with more than 30 countries engaged in these efforts, is having real results. And we’re seeing that when it comes to Russia’s war aims, Russia is failing, Ukraine is succeeding.