
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise trip to Kyiv on Tuesday, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russian forces make significant gains on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Blinken’s visit was the first by a Biden administration official since the long-delayed passage of US supplemental funding to the war-torn country.
The top US diplomat is due to deliver a speech later Tuesday, and discussed “recent battlefield updates in his meeting with Zelensky.