US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Ukraine for meetings

The US government plane carrying Anthony Blinkin landed at Kiev Boryspil International Airport early Wednesday morning and was greeted by Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba on the runway. At 12.30 local time, he will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

We know that there are plans in place to expand Russian power further on a very short notice. It gives President Vladimir Putin the ability, even in a very short time, to take more aggressive action against Ukraine, Anthony Blinken says in his first public statement on the ground in Kiev.

Number of officials and advisors He will also meet before the day officially concludes with a joint press conference with Blinken and Kuleba at 15.30. The US delegation will then head to Berlin on Thursday and Geneva on Friday.

In Berlin, meetings with Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock were put on the agenda, as well as a meeting with the so-called Transatlantic Quartet, that is, Boris Johnson’s diplomatic and security initiative between the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. On Friday, Anthony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov will meet.

“Bilateral issues and demands for Russia to take measures to reduce and withdraw its forces along the Ukrainian border,” is on Blinken’s agenda for the Geneva talks. The White House’s announcement of the surprise travel plan was motivated by “Russian military rearmament and continued aggression against Ukraine.”

At the same time, Lavrov called for guarantees from both the United States and NATO not to expand the military alliance to include the republics of the former Soviet Union, or to deploy weapons in those regions. The repeated demands came against the backdrop of Lavrov’s meeting with Annalina Barbuk in Moscow.

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