Zelensky also said he hoped his US counterpart, Joe Biden, would come to Kyiv.
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US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, will be in Kyiv on Sunday with Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin. The announcement was made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the first official visit to Ukraine by members of Joe Biden’s government since the Russian invasion.
“Tomorrow, American officials will come to visit us: I will meet with Defense Minister (Lloyd Austin) and Anthony Blinken,” Zelensky told a news conference in the Kyiv subway station.
Zelensky also expressed hope that his US counterpart, Joe Biden, would travel to Kyiv “to support the Ukrainian people” when the security situation allows.
The Ukrainian president specified that talks on Sunday would focus on US arms shipments to Ukraine.
“Last week, the signals, the messages, the steps, the deadlines, the numbers – I mean American weapons – everything has improved,” he told reporters, saying he was “grateful” to the US administration, although he would like to have “heavier and stronger weapons.” to confront the Russian army.
Biden announced military aid to Ukraine
Biden this week announced a new $800 million military aid package for Ukraine, With the aim of increasing the ability of Ukrainian forces to deal with the Russian offensive, which is currently concentrated in the east of the country.
The US president had already announced an aid package of a similar amount earlier this month.
Last month, a month after the start of the Russian offensive on Ukraine, Biden visited Poland, where he met the Ukrainian foreign and defense ministers, Dmytro Kuleba and Oleksiy Reznikov, respectively, at a meeting in which Blinken and Austin also took part.
During his stay in the neighboring country of Ukraine, which also received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees, The US President expressed his regret that he was not able to see the crisis in the former Soviet Union due to the Russian invasion “firsthand”.
“I’m here in Poland to see the humanitarian crisis first-hand, and frankly, part of my disappointment is that I can’t see it firsthand as it has in other places,” Biden said.
Since then, after the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv, many world leaders have traveled to Ukraine, such as the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, or the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez.
Source: Telam
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