US' Blinken and Austin to visit Kyiv, Ukraine on Sunday

There are plenty of updates on Russia's war on Ukraine, just noting this one.

Ukrainian President Zelensky announced the US visitors. He will meet with the two on Sunday.

Further weapons provisions will be on the agenda. Zelenskyy:

• said he expected "not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons.”

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