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According to a statement, Blinken ‘expressed concern about the security situation in eastern Ukraine and offered condolences on the recent loss of four Ukrainian soldiers’. ― Reuters pic
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WASHINGTON, April 1 ― US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a phone call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba yesterday, affirmed Washington s support for Ukraine s territorial integrity “in the face of Russia s ongoing aggression,” the State Department said in a statement.
Ukraine and Russia have been at loggerheads since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and over its support for separatist rebels fighting in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region, which Kyiv says has killed 14,000 people.
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US secretary of state Anthony Blinken, who pledged support to Ukraine (P Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)
A week after four soldiers were killed in eastern Ukraine, the US has pledged its support to the country in what it called the “face of ongoing Russian aggression”.
The US secretary of state Anthony Blinken, in a phone call to Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, on Wednesday offered his condolences for the soldiers’ deaths and expressed support to the minister for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, a statement from the US Department of State said.
Blinken’s comments come after Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Ruslan Khomchak, had claimed Russia was trying to build up armed forces near Ukraine’s border “in a threat to the country’s security.” It comes after a ceasefire agreement between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists was violated repeatedly.
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