Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Kyiv in a show of US support as Ukraine’s armed forces continue a grinding counteroffensive against entrenched Russian positions.
The top US diplomat is set to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as well as Ukraine’s foreign minister and prime minister, as the country’s military has begun making gains in its months-long campaign over the course of the summer.
The secretary is expected to announce more than $1 billion in new US funding for Ukraine and will focus his trip on hearing from Ukrainian officials about the ongoing counteroffensive and what they need to reinvigorate their economy, according to a senior State Department official, who briefed a traveling reporter on the way into Ukraine.
It’s not clear whether Blinken will also meet with Rustem Umerov, who Zelenskiy named to replace Oleksii Reznikov as the country’s defense minister following allegations of graft in military procurement by subordinates. Blinken met with Reznikov when he visited Kyiv in April of last year.
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