NEW: Blinken says Russia 'failing' in war aims and Ukraine 'succeeding'
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said after also meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the country's capital that Ukraine could win the war against Russia "if they have the right equipment, the right support," pledging the U.S. would "do everything we can" to help.Blinken and Austin promised Zelensky promised over $300 million in foreign military financing and that a $165 million sale of ammunition had been approved.
They also said diplomats would gradually begin returning to Ukraine from this week, with the ultimate goal of reopening the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.Blinken said that the Kremlin "has sought as its principal aim to totally subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty" and "take away" the country's independence. "That has failed," he added.
The Kremlin had "sought to assert the power of its military, its economy," but the opposite was happening, Blinken said. "We don’t know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer than Vladimir Putin is on the scene."
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