The visit comes as the war in Ukraine enters its third month with no end in sight, many thousands of people dead, millions having become refugees, and cities reduced to rubble.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv later. Pic: APUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to visit Ukraine's capital Kyiv later today, accompanied by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Mr Zelenskyy announced the visit on Saturday, saying:"I believe that we will be able to get agreements from the United States or part of that package on arming Ukraine which we agreed on earlier. "As soon as we have , as soon as there are enough of them, believe me, we will immediately retake this or that territory, which is temporarily occupied."• Ukraine has said it destroyed a Russian command post in the occupied city of Kherson, killing two generals and critically wounding a third. Russia has not commented on this
• Russia said it took control of several villages in the eastern Donbas region and destroyed 11 Ukrainian military targets overnight
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