The strategic port of Mariupol, which Moscow claims to have “liberated”, is still resisting Russian forces, says kyiv according to which thousands of Ukrainian fighters continue to fight fiercely to defend the immense Azovstal metallurgical complex. Follow live the latest information.
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The heads of diplomacy and defense of the United States are expected Sunday in kyiv, the day of the Orthodox Passover, the first American visit to Ukraine after exactly two months of a war which is still raging in the east and the south. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Minister Llyod Austin are due to arrive in kyiv on Sunday to discuss US arms shipments to Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday.
The president would like them “even heavier and more powerful” against the Russian army, he said during a press conference in a metro station in downtown kyiv. Poland has already supplied 1.6 billion dollars worth of arms to Ukraine, said its Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
And NATO countries are starting to supply kyiv with S300 missile launchers for its air defenses. But kyiv will also need other sophisticated weapons, including Howitzer howitzers, experts say.