US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent about three hours with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his senior team in the capital Kyiv.
Asked by a reporter what they had seen on their way to the capital, Blinken said they had taken a train from southwestern Poland to Kyiv.
“So we didn’t see a lot except looking out the train window. In Kyiv itself, we went right to the presidential palace.”
The US top diplomat said, “there wasn’t much of an opportunity to talk to average Ukrainians.”
On the surface, there were signs of “normal life” in parts of the city, he said.
Some context: While in Kyiv, Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Zelensky, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and Interior Minister Denys Monastrysky for an extended bilateral meeting, a senior State Department official said.
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