The coming months will demand a lot from Ukraine, Blinken
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has called the current stage of the war critical for Ukraine.
He said this at a briefing in Kyiv, adding that the coming months will require a lot from Ukraine. Reuters reports this.
Blinken also said during his visit to Kyiv that the US is bringing Ukraine closer to NATO and will then bring it into the alliance
◾️ U.S. working on providing Ukraine with additional air defense systems
◾️ Additional U.S. aid to Kyiv will arrive at the battlefield in the coming days
◾️ The current stage of the war is critical for Kyiv, the coming months will demand a lot from Ukraine
◾️ We must make Russia pay for rebuilding Ukraine.
◾️ What Putin destroyed, Russia must rebuild. The US is working on this with G7 partners
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his address that the situation in the Kharkiv direction is under control.
He told me about his meeting with US Secretary of State Blinken.
The President said that Ukraine needs to speed up deliveries – now there is too long a pause between the announcement of the package and deliveries.
Also needs air defense, especially to protect Kharkiv.
