The decision comes after Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken’s visit to Kiev and his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodímir Zelensky.
United States will resume diplomatic activities in Ukraine this week, the first since the invasion of Russia began two months ago, a decision that comes hours after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Kiev.
According to official sources reported to local US media, Washington’s diplomacy will initially return to the city Lvivin western Ukraine, a town near the border with Poland that barely suffered from the bombings by the Russian army.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have sought refuge in Lviv during the two months of the war, many of whom have managed to flee the bombings to other European countries.
According to New York TimesThe decision was announced during a briefing for journalists in Poland by a senior foreign ministry official and a senior defense official who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
US diplomats will begin crossing the border into Ukraine this week, the State Department official said, kiev embassy to begin personally restoring contacts across the country as soon as possible, according to New York Times
This is the first step to reopen the US embassy in the Ukrainian capital, official sources have confirmed Washington Post To the Ukrainian capital they are already backat least, 17 diplomatic delegationsmost of them from European countries.
The announcement comes just hours after Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin paid a brief, quiet visit to Kiev on Sunday, the first high-level US visit since the war’s start on Feb. 24, and in which she met with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky
Blinken and Austin have also informed Zelenski that the Biden administration will take care of some $713 million extra in military aid to Ukraine and a dozen other countries. Ukraine will receive more than $300 million, the State Department official has said, allowing it to purchase more advanced air defense systems and weapons compatible with those of NATO countries rather than those designed by the Russians.
Source: EITB
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