UPDATED. US officials say the cabinet secretaries pledged new assistance worth $713 million for Volodymyr Zelenskiy's government and other countries in the region that are fearful of further Russian aggression. RussiaUkraineCrisis
KYIV, Ukraine – The United States will reopen its embassy in Ukraine soon, its top diplomat said on Monday, April 25, after he and the US defense secretary visited Kyiv,Both Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the fact were able to come to Ukraine’s capital was proof of its tenacity in forcing Moscow to abandon an assault on Kyiv last month.
US officials said Austin and Blinken pledged new assistance worth $713 million for Ukraine and other countries in the region. An extra $322 million in military aid for Ukraine would take the total US security assistance since the invasion to about $3.7 billion, one official said. It would help Ukraine’s armed forces transition to more advanced weapons and air defense systems that were essentially NATO-compatible, the official added.
Today, the nearest Russian troops are hundreds of miles away, normal life is returning to the capital, Western leaders have been visiting and countries are reopening their embassies. All of the country was placed under an unusually long air raid warning for two hours on Monday morning. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had thwarted an attempt to assassinate a high-profile Russian journalist by Ukrainian agents backed by the West. The FSB security service said it had arrested a group planning to kill Vladimir Solovyev, host of a talk show on Russia’s main state television station and one of the most prominent voices in support of the invasion.
Some 320 km southeast of Kyiv, Russian missile strikes on an oil refinery and power plant in Kremenchuk killed one person and wounded seven, the governor of the Poltava region said. Moscow said it had destroyed oil production facilities.
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